Olive Trees at Tivoli
George Inness
1873
Medium
Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on blue wove paper with colored fibers
Dimensions
7 x 12 3/8 in. (17.8 x 31.4 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1989
Accession Number
1989.287
Tags
Landscapes
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...