George Inness (American),Spring Blossoms,Montclair,NJ ca.1891,oil and crayon or charcoal on canvas
George Inness,who began his career painting in the Hudson River School mode,embraced a variety of styles throughout his long career.Exposure to the works of Barbizon artists as well as to the pantheistic philosophy of Swedish scientist and theologian Emmanuel Swedenborg,led him to a more personal approach to painting.Inness's latest landscapes such as this work grew increasingly expressive and atmospheric.By the 1880s,a younger generation of European trained artists-whose work was informed by the Barbizon and Impressionist painters as well as by the Aestheticism of James McNeil Whistler-celebrated Inness as an American Original.
George Inness (American),Spring Blossoms,Montclair,NJ ca.1891,oil and crayon or charcoal on canvas
George Inness,who began his career painting in the Hudson River School mode,embraced a variety of styles throughout his long career.Exposure to the works of Barbizon artists as well as to the pantheistic philosophy of Swedish scientist and theologian Emmanuel Swedenborg,led him to a more personal approach to painting.Inness's latest landscapes such as this work grew increasingly expressive and atmospheric.By the 1880s,a younger generation of European trained artists-whose work was informed by the Barbizon and Impressionist painters as well as by the Aestheticism of James McNeil Whistler-celebrated Inness as an American Original.