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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.127
People
George Inness, American (Newburgh, NY 1825 - 1894 Bridge of Allan, Scotland)
Title
Durham, Connecticut
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1869
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229056

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
22.9 x 30.5 cm (9 x 12 in.)
framed: 50.5 x 57.8 x 7.6 cm (19 7/8 x 22 3/4 x 3 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: G. I. 1869

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
George H. Ainslie Galleries, New York, by 1912; sold to Allston Burr, Boston, MA; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Allston Burr
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.127
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Juliette Tomlinson, Paintings of the Connecticut Valley, exh. cat., Connecticut Valley Historical Museum and Saint-Gaudens Memorial (Chicopee Falls, MA, 1955), no. 9, ill.
  • Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 5
  • LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1965), p. 113, no. 460, ill.
  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 7
  • Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., George Inness, Praeger (New York, NY, 1971), p. 38, fig. 40
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 97, ill.
  • Martha J. Hoppin, Arcadian Vales: Views of the Connecticut River Valley, exh. cat., George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum (1981), p. 77
  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 6
  • 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Technique" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2002), Unpublished, pp. 1-14 passim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. 303, no. 342, 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. 299, cat. 260, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Inness and Wyant Exhibition, New York Society of Artists, D. W., New York, 06/01/1912 - 09/30/1912
  • Landscape Paintings of the Connecticut Valley, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, Springfield, 04/29/1955 - 06/10/1955; Saint Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, 07/02/1955 - 07/31/1955
  • American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

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