George Inness
1825–1894 · Impressionism, Post-Impressionism · 32 works
George Inness used landscape to explore the relationship between the visible world and spiritual experience. His early pictures often describe a place in detail; later paintings let trees, fields, and figures merge into a shared atmosphere. Encounters with French Barbizon painting encouraged his expressive handling of paint, while the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg shaped his ideas about nature. The shift is worth following across his career: a particular farm or pond gradually becomes a setting in which light, color, and indistinct forms carry much of the feeling.
32 works · 1848–1894
Compare an early landscape with a late one. Where do the edges of trees and figures become difficult to separate from the air around them?
1848–1849 · 3 works
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1858–1867 · 8 works
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1869–1875 · 5 works
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1873–1876 · 5 works
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1882–1891 · 5 works
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1892–1894 · 6 works
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Impressionism · 2 works
Walk these 2Post-Impressionism · 1 work
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Walk these 29Camille Pissarro
The Banks of the Marne in Winter, 1866
Frederick Carl Frieseke
On the Bank, c. 1915
Georges Seurat
Landscape at Saint-Ouen, 1878 or 1879
