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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1976.94
People
George Inness, American (Newburgh, NY 1825 - 1894 Bridge of Allan, Scotland)
Title
A View Near Medfield
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1861
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213914

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
64.4 x 91.8 cm (25 3/8 x 36 1/8 in.)
framed: 86.7 x 111.8 x 10.2 cm (34 1/8 x 44 x 4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Geo. Inness 1861

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased by Walter Richmond, probably before 1890; to his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Walker, Brookline, MA; bequest to her son, George R. Walker, Concord, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1976.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of George R. Walker
Accession Year
1976
Object Number
1976.94
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 12
  • Kate Smith, "A Study of George Inness's Underdrawing Technique" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2002), Unpublished, pp. 1-14 passim
  • Michael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ and London, 2007), p. 213, no. 180, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 298, cat. 259, ill.

Exhibition History

  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

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