
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001610The Mill Pond
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.
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
- 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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