
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001144Early Morning, Tarpon Springs
Inscriptions
Signed and dated recto, bottom-left, on ground, in brown paint: "G. Inness 1892".
Provenance
Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1911; sold to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1911; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Art Institute of Chicago, Junior Museum: America and the Artist, Aug. 1, 1975–July 9, 1978, no cat. Ohio, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape, Mar. 8–Apr. 5, 1981, cat. 11. Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago Bijutsukan Ten: Kindai Kaiga no 100–nen [Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat.; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
Publications
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998) p. 292, no. 75. Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 1075, pl. 231. Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 56. Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2017) p. 77.
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
- 1892
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 107.2 × 82.2 cm (42 3/16 × 32 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Edward B. Butler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1911.32
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