Harvest Moon
George Inness
1891
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 × 113.03 cm (30 × 44 1/2 in.) framed: 109.22 × 147.32 cm (43 × 58 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Mabel Stevens Smithers)
Accession Number
2014.136.73
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...