Threatening

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Arts of the Americas

1891

George Inness (American, 1825–1894)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: George Inness
Title: Threatening
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.: 1891
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "G. Inness 1891"
Dimensions: 76.8 × 116.2 cm (30 1/4 × 45 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Edward B. Butler Collection
Reference Number: 1911.33
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Carolyn Kinder Carr, et al., “Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World’s Fair” (University Press of New England, 1993), p. 268 (ill.).
Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 998.

Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, May 1–Oct. 31, 1893.

Thomas B. Clarke, from the artist by 1891 (sale, American Art Galleries, American Art Association, New York [Clarke sale], February 14-18, 1899, no. 341); Emerson McMillin, New York, purchased at auction,1899, to 1911; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1911; Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1911; sold to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1911; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.

Quick 998

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