Sunset in the Woods
George Inness
1891
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 122.2 × 183.2 cm (48 1/8 × 72 1/8 in.) framed: 170.2 × 231.1 × 17.8 cm (67 × 91 × 7 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)
Accession Number
2014.79.43
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...