
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001142After a Summer Shower
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: "G. Inness 1894"
Provenance
Sold, American Art Galleries, American Art Association, New York, to Thomas B. Clarke, 1899; Emerson McMillin, New York, 1899; Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1911; sold to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1911; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.
Exhibition history
New York, Union League Club, Exhibition of Paintings, Dec. 1894, no. 67. New York, Manhattan Club, Paintings Loaned by Members, Mar. 19–23, 1896, no. 1. New York, Union League Club, The Paintings of Two Americans, Mar. 10–12, 1898, no. 25. New York, Lotos Club, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Emerson McMillin, Mar. 29–31, 1902, no. 18. Chicago, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, An Exhibition of Eighteen Pictures by the American Master of Landscape Painting, the Late George Inness, 1911, no. 1. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Directions in Twentieth Century American Painting, 1961, no. 7. The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Themes in American Painting, 1977, no. 45. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí, Oct. 4, 2019–Jan. 12, 2020; St. Louis Art Museum, Feb. 12–May 17, 2020 (St. Louis only), no cat. no., 147, fig 152 (ill.).
Publications
Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 1140, pl. 248. Moira Harris et al., "Minnesota Modern: Four Artists of the Twentieth Century," (Afton Press, 2015), (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Inness (American, 1825–1894)
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.9 × 107.6 cm (32 1/4 × 42 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Edward B. Butler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1911.29
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