Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley
George Inness
1867
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76 × 115 cm (29 15/16 × 45 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ina and Jack Kay
Accession Number
2002.154.1
About the Artist
George Inness · 1825–1894
George Inness (1825–1894) was an American landscape painter regarded as one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American art, bridging the Hudson River School tradition and a more personal, spiritually-inflected vision of nature. Born near Newburgh, New York, he received limited formal training, studying briefly with Régis François Gignoux, but was largely self-taught, developing h...