About This Artwork
George Inness
American, 1825-1894
The Lonely Farm, Nantucket1892
Oil on canvas
78.1 x 116.2 cm (30 3/4 x 45 3/4 in.)
Signed, lower left: "G. Inness 1892"
Edward B. Butler Collection, 1914.189
Quick 1041
American Art
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 1041.
Ownership History
Estate of the artist (sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York [George Inness executor's sale], February 12-14, 1895, as The Lonely Farm, Nantucket; George E. Tewksbury, acquired 1895; Lewis G. Tewksbury (sale, Benjamin S. Wise, Auctioneer, New York, April 24-26, 1902, as The Lonely Farm; with Harry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago; Edward B. Butler, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1914.