George Inness
American (1825–1894)
Near Irvington, 1877
Oil on canvas, 16 ¼ x 24 ¼ inches
Signed and dated ‘G. Inness 1877‘ (lower right)—inscribed with title (on the stretcher)
PROVENANCE
The artist.
Robert C. Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from the above.
Edward Drummond Libbey, Toledo, Ohio, circa 1900.
Gift from the above to The Toledo Museum of Art, 1926-2026
LITERATURE
“Fine Arts; In the Studios,” New York Herald, September 16, 1877, p. 8.
“The Fine Arts; An Inness Exhibition at Vose’s Gallery,” Boston Evening Transcript, December 8, 1899, p. 10 (as Goose Girl).
“Inness,” Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs, vol. IX, no. 102, 1908, pp. 251, 227, pl. 4, illustrated (as The Goose Girl).
Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 82, June 1938, n.p., illustrated.
L. Ireland, The Works of George Inness, Austin, Texas, 1965, p. 204, no. 823, illustrated (as The Goose Girl).
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 150, 65, pl. 66, illustrated.
M. Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, pp. 250, 258, 343, 346, 513, 534-35, 536, no. 623, fig. 210, pl. 126, illustrated.
EXHIBITED
Boston, Massachusetts, Robert C. Vose Galleries, Modern Paintings: Early English Barbizon and American, circa 1899.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas, University Art Museum, The Paintings of George Inness (1844-1894), 1965-1966, p. 26, no. 68.
