A Winter Sky
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 56 × 77.5 cm · framed: 82 × 102 × 11.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Charles W. Harkness Gift
Accession Number
1927.388
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.