
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001150Moonrise
Inscriptions
Signed recto, bottom-right, on ground, in black paint: "G. Inness 1891".
Provenance
The artist, Montclair, NJ, 1891 [this and the following according to Ireland 1965, 355 and Quick 2007, 334]; by descent to his estate, 1894; sold, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, Feb. 12–14, 1895, lot 30, to T.J. Briggs, New York. Emerson McMillin (1844–1922), New York, by Mar., 1902 [Lotos Club exh., 1902]; With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, Jan., 1911 [stock book, no. 12274]. With Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, Mar., 1911; sold to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, Mar. 11, 1911; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.
Exhibition history
New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, Dec. 27, 1894, cat. 91. New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, Inness Executor’s Sale, Feb. 12–14, 1895, cat. 30. New York, Lotos Club, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Emerson McMillin, Mar. 29–31, 1902, cat. 24. Chicago, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, An Exhibition of Eighteen Pictures by the American Master of Landscape Painting, the Late George Inness, Mar. 1911, cat. 11.
Publications
American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, exh. cat. (The Republic Press, 1894), 36, cat. 91. “A Great American Painter: The Landscapes of the late George Innes,” New York Daily Tribune, Dec. 28, 1894, 7. Executor’s Sale: Catalogue of Paintings by the Late George Inness, N. A. , sale cat. (Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 1895), n.p., cat. 30. Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness, exh. cat. (Henry Reinhardt Galleries, 1911), n.p., cat. 11 (ill.). “The Inness Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 4, no. 4 (Apr., 1911): 53–55, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4119894. Elliott Daingerfield, “A Wonderful Collection of Innesses,” Arts and Decoration 1, no. 6 (Apr., 1911): 256, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43799852. James William Pattison, “Gifts of Eighteen Pictures by George Inness to the Art Institute, Chicago,” Fine Arts Journal 24, no. 4 (Apr., 1911): 212–22 (ill.), https://www.jstor.org/stable/23906492. William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 151, cat. 587, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w. William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 160, cat. 587, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl3r4m. George William Eggers, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), 162, cat. 587. George William Eggers, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 58, cat. 587, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952. Robert B. Harshe, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), 63, cat. 587, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053578. Robert B. Harshe, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), 63, cat. 587. Robert B. Harshe, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 141, cat. 587. Mary Rexinger, The Inness Gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1930): 22. Art Institute of Chicago, The Edward B. Butler Collection of Paintings by George Inness (1825–1894) (Art Institute of Chicago, 1930), 38–9, cat. 587 (ill.). Robert B. Harshe, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 158. Allen McNab, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 222. LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Innes, an Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné (University of Texas Press, 1965), 355, cat. 1386 (ill.). Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., George Inness (H.N. Abrams; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1993), 123. Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), 334–35, cat. 1027 (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
- 1891
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.5 × 64.1 cm (30 1/8 × 25 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Edward B. Butler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1911.39
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