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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Mill Pond
    George Inness. The Mill Pond, 1889. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001610

    The Mill Pond

    by George Inness

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right: "G. Inness 1889"

    Provenance

    Thomas B. Clarke (sale, American Art Association, New York, February 14-18, 1899); Emerson McMillin, New York, from 1899 to 1911; 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

    New York, Athletic Club, Third Annual Art Loan Exhibition, Feb. 2, 1889, no. 27. New York, Union League Club, Catalogue of a Loan Collection of American Landscapes with Greek Terra–Cotta Figures and Vases, Jan. 9–11, 1890, no. 3. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Thomas B. Clarke Collection, Oct. 15–Nov. 28, 1891, no. 108. National Academy of Design, New York Columbian Celebration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America, Oct. 1892, no. 62. New York, Union League Club, A Group of Paintings by American Artists Accepted for the Columbian Exposition 1893, Mar. 9–11, 1893, no. 15. Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, May 1–Oct. 31, 1893, no. 606. New York, Union League Club, The Paintings of Two Americans, Mar. 10–12, 1898, no. 24. Paris, Exposition Universelle, Catalogue illustre officiel de l'Exposition decennale des beaux–arts, 1889 a 1900, Apr. 15–Nov. 5, 1900, no. 166. New York, Lotos Club, Exposition of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Emerson McMillin, Mar. 29–31, 1902, no. 11. Chicago, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, An Exhibition of Eighteen Pictures by the American Master of Landscape Painting, the late George Inness, N.A., 1911, no. 2. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Des Moines Art Center, The Painting of Light, 1960, no. 17. Albi, France, Musee Toulouse–Lautrec, Tresors Impressionistes du Musee de Chicago, 1980, no. 50. Detroit Institute of Arts, The Quest for Unity: American Art Between the Wrorld's Fairs, 1876–1893, 1983, no. 147. The Montclair Art Museum, Paris 1900: 'The American School' at the Universal Exposition, Sept. 18, 1999–Jan. 16, 2000; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb. 11–Apr. 16, 2000; Columbus Museum of Art, May 18–Aug. 13, 2000.

    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.). 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. 28, no. 25. Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 948, pl. 196.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    George Inness (American, 1825–1894)
    Date
    1889
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    95.9 × 75.6 cm (37 3/4 × 29 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Edward B. Butler Collection
    Accession no.
    1911.30

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