Montclair (Montclair Landscape)
George Inness, American, 1825 - 1894
1891-1892
Oil on canvas
Overall: 19 5/8 × 35 1/4 in. (49.8 × 89.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Victor W. Henningsen
P.971.37
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: G. Inness. Label on reverse: 41 / Montclair /19 1/3 x 35 (torn). Label on reverse: Inness Sale 1904 / From the Collection of / H. Alloway / M.N. ROTHSCHILD Jr.
Course History
SART 31, SART 72, Painting II/III, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
American 19th Century Paintings, Beaumont-May Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-31, 1974.
Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-July 14, 1981.
Hail, Holy Land: the Idea of America, Struass and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 27-September 7, 1980.
Hanover, New Hampshire, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, 1970-71, on extended loan from Victor W. Henningsen
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 8, 1990.
Recent Aquisitions, Beaumont-May Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June-July, 1972.
The Dartmouth Collection: 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-November 6, 1982.
Publication History
LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness, An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965, p.372, no. 1892, plate 1437.
Robert L. McGrath and members of the American Art course, Art 50, Spring 1980, Hail, Holy Land: the Idea of America, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1980, pp. 56-59, no. 15.
Michael Quick, George Inness, A Catalogue Raisonne, Volume Two, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2007, pp. 368-369, no. 1064.
Eugenia S. Robbins, Editor, College Museum Notes, Art Journal, Fall, 1972, p. 45, ill. p. 46.
Provenance
To the artist's widow Elizabeth Hart Inness (1833-1903), about 1894; in the Mrs. George Inness executor's sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, February 11-13, 1904, no. 72, as Montclair; possibly H. Alloway, Goshen, New York; M. N. Rothchild, Jr.; with John Levy Galleries, New York, by 1949; with LeRoy Ireland, New York, 1949-1951; with Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1951; Victor W. Henningsen (1895-1981), Pelham, New York; on loan to present collection, 1970-1971; given to present collection, 1971.
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