Crossing the Ford

Arts of the Americas

1848

George Inness (American, 1825–1894)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: George Inness
Title: Crossing the Ford
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.: 1848
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed on reverse of canvas: "Geo. Inness 1848"
Dimensions: 57.2 × 62.2 cm (22 1/2 × 24 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Edith Kepke MacDonald
Reference Number: 1977.487
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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.
Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 25, pl. 11.

Possibly American Art-Union, New York; possibly Henry E. Russell, Macon, GA, 1848 by distribution from the American Art-Union. Dr. John Kepke, Brooklyn, by c.1916; by descent to Edith K. MacDonald, Elk Grove, CA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

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