About This Artwork
George Inness
American, 1825-1894
Moonlight on Passamaquoddy Bay, 1893
Oil on canvas
76.8 x 114.9 cm (30 1/4 x 45 1/4 in.)
Signed and dated, lower right: "G. Inness 1893"
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1207
American Art
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, Dec. 27, 1894, cat. 31.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by George Inness, Mar. 1–17, 1895, cat. 19.
Saint Louis, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Exhibition of the Department of Art, Apr. 30-?, 1904, cat. 107.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Inaugural Exhibition, Jan. 7–Feb. 7, 1915, cat. 226.
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, George Inness Centennial Exhibition 1825–1925, Oct. 30–Nov. 30, 1925, cat. 20.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Painting and Sculpture, 1862–1932, Oct. 31, 1932–Jan. 31, 1933, cat. 58.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 466.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 399.
Baltimore Museum of Art, A Survey of American Painting, Jan. 10–Feb. 28, 1934, cat. 21.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Seven Centuries of Painting, A Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, Dec. 29, 1939–Jan. 28, 1940, cat. 160.
Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 150.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Masters of Nineteenth Century American Painting 1851–1951 (Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948), cat. 28.
Milwaukee, Downer College, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13–Mar. 23, 1951, cat. 2.
Publication History
George Inness, Jr., The Life, Art and Letters of George Inness (Century, 1917), p. 263 (ill.).
LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness (University of Texas Press, 1965), p. 384 (ill.).
Ownership History
The artist, 1872; estate of the artist 1894; Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, 1895; Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, from 1895; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.