The Lonely Farm, Nantucket

Arts of the Americas

1892

George Inness (American, 1825–1894)

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: George Inness
Title: The Lonely Farm, Nantucket
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.: 1892
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, lower left: "G. Inness 1892"
Dimensions: 78.1 × 116.2 cm (30 3/4 × 45 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Edward B. Butler Collection
Reference Number: 1914.189
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Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 1041.
Beth Venn, “Every Hour of the Light: The Art of Mary Sipp–Green,” (The Artist Book Foundation, 2015), (ill.).

Estate of the artist [sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, February 12-14, 1895, as The Lonely Farm, Nantucket]; George E. Tewksbury, 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 of Chicago, 1914.

Quick 1041

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