Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001145Threatening
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: "G. Inness 1891"
Provenance
Thomas B. Clarke, from the artist by 1891 (sale, American Art Galleries, American Art Association, New York [Clarke sale], February 14-18, 1899, no. 341); Emerson McMillin, New York, purchased at auction,1899, to 1911; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1911; Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1911; sold to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1911; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.
Exhibition history
Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, May 1–Oct. 31, 1893.
Publications
Carolyn Kinder Carr, et al., "Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair" (University Press of New England, 1993), p. 268 (ill.). Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 998.
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
- 1891
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.8 × 116.2 cm (30 1/4 × 45 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Edward B. Butler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1911.33
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