After a Summer Shower

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Arts of the Americas

1894

George Inness (American, 1825–1894)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: George Inness
Title: After a Summer Shower
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1894
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "G. Inness 1894"
Dimensions: 81.9 × 107.6 cm (32 1/4 × 42 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Edward B. Butler Collection
Reference Number: 1911.29
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Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 1140, pl. 248.
Moira Harris et al., “Minnesota Modern: Four Artists of the Twentieth Century,” (Afton Press, 2015), (ill.).

New York, Union League Club, Exhibition of Paintings, Dec. 1894, no. 67.
New York, Manhattan Club, Paintings Loaned by Members, Mar. 19–23, 1896, no. 1.
New York, Union League Club, The Paintings of Two Americans, Mar. 10–12, 1898, no. 25.
New York, Lotos Club, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Emerson McMillin, Mar. 29–31, 1902, no. 18.
Chicago, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, An Exhibition of Eighteen Pictures by the American Master of Landscape Painting, the Late George Inness, 1911, no. 1.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Directions in Twentieth Century American Painting, 1961, no. 7.
The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Themes in American Painting, 1977, no. 45.
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí, Oct. 4, 2019–Jan. 12, 2020; St. Louis Art Museum, Feb. 12–May 17, 2020 (St. Louis only), no cat. no., 147, fig 152 (ill.).

Sold, American Art Galleries, American Art Association, New York, to Thomas B. Clarke, 1899; Emerson McMillin, New York, 1899; Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1911; sold to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1911; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.

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