The Delaware Valley
George Inness
ca. 1863
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
22 1/4 x 30 3/8 in. (56.5 x 77.2 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Several Gentlemen, 1899
Accession Number
99.27
Tags
HillsLandscapes
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...