About This Artwork

George Inness
American, 1825-1894

Crossing the Ford, 1848

Oil on canvas
57.2 x 62.2 cm (22 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.)
Signed on reverse of canvas: "Geo. Inness 1848"
Gift of Mrs. Edith Kepke MacDonald, 1977.487

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

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), p. 170, no. 36.