1893 (ca.), George Inness, Tarpon Springs, Florida, the Artist's Home -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Beginning in 1884, Inness traveled with increased frequency throughout the southern United States, visiting Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida, where he established a home and studio in Tarpon Springs. He painted many of his great late works in Florida, focusing not on the state's well-known motifs-alligators, tropical beaches, and palm trees-but on the pine trees and causeways of the less-traveled Gulf Coast. In this unfinished landscape, Inness experimented with the expressive and unifying effects of muted color and soft light to capture, as one collector noted, "the warm sweet gloom of our fragrant pine groves of the south."
1893 (ca.), George Inness, Tarpon Springs, Florida, the Artist's Home -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Beginning in 1884, Inness traveled with increased frequency throughout the southern United States, visiting Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida, where he established a home and studio in Tarpon Springs. He painted many of his great late works in Florida, focusing not on the state's well-known motifs-alligators, tropical beaches, and palm trees-but on the pine trees and causeways of the less-traveled Gulf Coast. In this unfinished landscape, Inness experimented with the expressive and unifying effects of muted color and soft light to capture, as one collector noted, "the warm sweet gloom of our fragrant pine groves of the south."