Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001160Afterglow
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: "G. Inness 1893"
Provenance
Estate of the artist (sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York [George Inness executor's sale], February 12-14, 1895, no. 52, as Afterglow), Charles L. Hutchinson, Chicago, acquired at auction 1895, to 1911; 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].
Publications
Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 1111.
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
- 1893
- 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.
- 1911.441
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