Hackensack Meadows, Sunset

1859

Place madeNew Jersey, United States, North America

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 18 1/4 × 26 in. (46.4 × 66 cm)
Framed: 27 1/2 in. × 35 1/2 in. × 3 in. (69.9 × 90.2 × 7.6 cm)

The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart

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Inness abandoned the crisply detailed brushwork of his early manner after two European trips in the 1850s, when he was attracted to the work of the Barbizon artists. In this quiet view of New Jersey farmland, Inness has applied the suffused light, rich colors, and softened forms of the Barbizon School, characteristics that were compatible with his own growing beliefs, which gave authority to emotional rather than intellectual responses to the intimate aspects of nature.

SignedSigned and dated in lower corner: "G INNESS 1859"

MarkingsLabel on obverse inner frame edge, lower right corner, printed: "47"

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