About This Artwork
George Inness
American, 1825-1894
Coast of Cornwall, 1887
Oil on canvas
81.3 x 107 cm (32 x 42 1/8 in.)
Signed, lower right: "G. Inness 1887"
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1947.80
Unknown 53
American Art
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, Executor’s Sale of Paintings by the Late George Inness, N.A., Feb. 12–14, 1895, cat. 237a.
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Twenty-fifth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 25–July 31, 1918, cat. 4.
Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Worcester Collection, July 24–Sept. 25, 1923.
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, George Inness Centennial Exhibition 1825–1925, Oct. 30–Nov. 30, 1925, cat. 5.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 465.
Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, The Seashore, Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oct. 22–Dec. 5, 1965, cat. 39.
Publication History
Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Lakeside Press, 1938), cat. 53.
Katherine Kuh, “The Worcester Gift,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 41 (1947), pp. 58–64.
“The Magnificent Worcester Gift,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report for 1946–1947 42 (Feb. 1949), pp. 4–5.
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 222.
LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonnè (University of Texas, 1965), p. 311, no. 1245.
John Wilmerding, A History of American Marine Painting (Peabody Museum of Salem/Little, Brown and Company, 1968), pp. 239, 241 (ill.).
Ownership History
The artist, 1887; estate of the artist, 1894; Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, 1895; William Barbour, New York, from 1895; J. Adelaide Barbour (Mrs. William Barbour), New York, 1917; M. Knoedler and Company, New York, from 1917; John Levy, New York, 1919; George H. Ainslie Galleries, New York, 1920. Anderson Galleries, Chicago, by 1921; Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester, Chicago, 1921; given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.