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TITLE:
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Sunshine and Clouds
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WORK DATE:
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1883
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on canvas
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MARKINGS:
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Signed G. Inness 1883 lower right
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SIZE:
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h: 27.5 x w: 41.5 in / h: 69.8 x w: 105.4 cm
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PRICE*:
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Contact Gallery for Price
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PROVENANCE:
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W. A. White, Boston
William T. Evans, New York, until 1913; titled changed to:
Private Collection
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LITERATURE:
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Caffin, C. H. American Masters of Painting, Being Brief Appreciations of Some American Painters ([1901] 1913), facing page 5.
Caffin, C.H. “Some American Landscape Painters,” The Critic 45, no. 2 (August 1904): 129.
Daingerfeld, Elliot. Fifty Paintings by George Inness, pl. 15.
Ireland, LeRoy. The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1965, no. 1085, pages 268-269.
Kennedy Galleries, Recently Acquired American Masterpieces of the 19th and 20th Centuries (1974), no. 14.
Kennedy Galleries, Specially Selected American Masters 1759- 1991 (1991)
Maddox, Intruder into Eden: The Train in Nineteenth-Century American Landscape ([1999] 2000) p. 368.
Quick, Michael. George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Two. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2007, no. 773, page 107-108.
Swift, Samuel, “A Deal in Pictures; Some Aspects of a Sensational Lawsuit Involving the Authenticity of Noted American Paintings,” Harper’s Weekly 52, no. 2085 (June 6, 1908):14, described as “strikingly illustrat[ing] the vigorous style” of Inness, as compared to another work said to be a forgery.
Truettner, William H., “William T. Evans, Collector of American Paintings,” The American Art Journal 2 (Fall 1971): 75
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EXHIBITION HISTORY:
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Fine Arts Building, New York, Inness Memorial Exhibition, 27 December 1894, catalogue no. 51
Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, New York, Inness Executor’s Sale, 12-14 February 1895, catalogue number 107, as Scene on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Royal Academy, Berlin, March 1910
Munich, Exhibition of American Art, May 1910
Lotos Club, New York, 1912
New York School of Applied Design for Women, New York, April-May 1912, catalogue no. 30
American Art Association, New York, Sale of the collection of William T. Evans, 31 March 1913, catalogue no. 197
Rome, The Vatican Museums, A Mirror of Creation: 150 Years of American Nature Painting, 1980, catalogue no. 26
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, George Inness, 1 April- 9 June 1985, catalogue number 42 as Sunshine and Clouds.
**This exhibition also toured to the following locations:
Cleveland Museum of Art, 21 August – 6 October 1985
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 10 November 1985 - 12 January 1986
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