A Winter Sky
The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Charles W. Harkness Gift
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A Winter Sky

1866
George Inness (American, 1825–1894) visual detail
ArtistGeorge Inness (American, 1825–1894)
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Provenance

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William H. Hurlbut (Sale: Leavitt Art Rooms, New York, 31 May 1883, cat. no. 46 as A Winter Sky);

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Charles Harkness, New York (1916)

Source provenance text

William H. Hurlbut (Sale: Leavitt Art Rooms, New York, 31 May 1883, cat. no. 46 as A Winter Sky); Charles Harkness, New York (1916)

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Exhibitions

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George Inness Retrospective. Paine Art Center and Gardens, Oshkosh, WI (organizer) (October 1-31, 1962). Luminous Landscape: The American Study of Light, 1860-1875. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (April 18-May 11, 1966). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). George Inness and the Visionary Landscape. National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, NY (organizer) (September 17-December 28, 2003); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (January 24-April 18, 2004). Julie Mehretu: Portals. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022). Leavitt Art Rooms, Hurlbert Sale (New York, 1883), cat. no. 46 as A Winter Sky; this records the 31 May 1883 sale of this painting from the William Henry Hurlbert collection. Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Paine Art Center, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness (2 October-28 October 1962), cat. no. 9 as Winter, Close of Day. Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Luminous Landscape: The American Study of Light, 1860-1875 (18 April-11 May 1966), cat. no. 24, illus. as Winter, Close of Day. Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Visions of Landscape: East and West (17 February-21 March 1982) New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Inness (1 April-9 June 1985); traveled to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (21 August-6 October 1985); Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (10 November 1985-12 January 1986); Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (20 February-11 May 1986); Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (22 June-7 September 1986), cat. no. 13, pp. 102-103, illus. p. 103. New York, National Academy of Design, The Art of George Inness: A Visionary Perspective ( 17 September-12 December 2003); traveled to San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art (24 January-18 April 2004); illus. cat. no. 10, p. 81.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

In <em>A Winter Sky</em>, George Inness concentrated on depicting the effects of light and atmosphere. In this composition, the artist combined a vibrant, glowing sunset with a harsh, bleak landscape. Inness's color choice reinforces this contrast, as the warm pinks and yellows in the sky play off the cool blues of the frozen ground.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 5 structured exhibitions.

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