A Winter Sky

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Winter Sky

George InnessLinkedCulture matchlcp-40ce03c356d5

Date
1866
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
America
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
109239

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In A Winter Sky , George Inness concentrated on depicting the effects of light and atmosphere. In this composition, the artist combined a vibrant, glowing sunset with a harsh, bleak landscape. Inness's color choice reinforces this contrast, as the warm pinks and yellows in the sky play off the cool blues of the frozen ground. George Inness originally included a figure standing at the left edge of the pond, which he later painted over so that it is no longer visible.

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Credit line
The Charles W. Harkness Gift
Provenance
William H. Hurlbut (Sale: Leavitt Art Rooms, New York, 31 May 1883, cat. no. 46 as A Winter Sky); | Charles Harkness, New York (1916)

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  • Representative object from the topic American Landscape and Coastal Paintings
    American Landscape and Coastal Paintings

    These works are 19th-century oil paintings depicting natural landscapes and seascapes from the northeastern United States, particularly coastal New England regions and rocky shores.

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