About This Artwork
George Inness
American, 1825-1894
The Home of the Heron, 1893
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 115.2 cm (30 x 45 in.)
Signed, lower right: "G. Inness 1893"
Edward B. Butler Collection, 1911.31
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Jacksonville, Fla., Cummer Gallery of Art, George Inness in Florida, 1890-1894, and the South, 1884-1894, April 11-May 25, 1980.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Inness, April 1-June 9, 1985, Nicolai Chikovsky and Michael Quick, cat. no. 59, p. 195, ill. ; traveled to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 10, 1985-January 12, 1986; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 20-May 11, 1986. (Picture did not go to the final condensed exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, June 22-September 7, 1986.
National Academy of Design, New York, The Art of George Inness: A Visionary Perspective, September 17-december 28, 2003, traveled to San Diego Museum of Art, January 24-April 18, 2004.
Publication History
Bland Simpson, “Canalbank Life,” Virginia Calvalcade (Spring 1990) pp. 172-181, ill. p. 177.
Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).
Ownership History
George Inness, 1893; Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, 1894. E.W. Bass, New York, by 1908. Emerson McMIllin, New York, by 1911; M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1911; Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1911, Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1911; given to the Art Institute, 1911.