Search results for: “George Inness”
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Eye Candy for Today: Sunny Autumn Day by George Inness
Sunny Autumn Day by George Inness Oil on canvas, approximately 32 x 42 in. (81 x 106 cm). Link is to the Cleveland Museum of Art, which has the original in its collection and offers both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. It’s easy to see the visual drama of the light and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Early Autumn, Montclair by George Inness
Early Autumn, Montclair, George Inness The link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a high-resolution downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Delaware Art Museum (which unfortunately doesn’t have its collection online, though there is more on the Google Art Project). This is one of my…
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Eye Candy for Today: George Inness, Sunset in the Woods
Sunset in the Woods, George Inness The link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons from which you can access a high resolution file; the original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has a zoomable and downloadable high-res image. There are paintings that seem to transcend art and move into the…
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Eye Candy for Today: George Inness, Sunrise
Sunrise, George Inness In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the Download or Enlarge links under the image. Don’t take my limited detail crops above as your only view of the painting; go the Met’s site and view the image full screen. There are lots of paintings that shout at the viewer,…
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Eye Candy for Today: George Inness landscape study
Landscape Study, George inness On Wikimedia Commons. As far as I can tell, the original is in a private collection. In this small but strikingly beautiful study (9×13 in; 23x33m), we get an uncharacteristic glimpse of Inness wielding the brush. The brief notations of the animals and buildings are remarkable for their naturalistic appearance when…
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George Inness
At a time when his fellow Hudson River painters were searching for the most wild, untamed and and dramatic landscape subjects they could find (or sometimes combine and invent, in the case of Frederic Church), George Inness chose to paint settled and cultivated lands, the farms and fields in which both God and man had…