Sunset At Medfield
Artist
George Inness Sr.
(American, 1825-1894)
CultureAmerican
Date1866
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
InscribedSigned lower right: "G. Inness 1866"
Credit LineGift of Edward J. Brickhouse
Object number84.508
Not on view
DescriptionOil on canvas painting of a landscape at sunset. It is a Massachusetts meadow; cattle graze in the pasture, and a woman walks along the fence row.ProvenanceAbbott Thayers, Monadnock, New Hampshire; Milch Galleries, New York City; LeRoy Ireland, New York City; Dr. Maurice H. Goldblatt, Chicago, Illnois; Gift of Edward J. Brickhouse to the Chysler Museum, 1984. Exhibition History_George Inness Exhibition_, John Levy Galleries, New York City, Ny., Feb.--March, 1947, cat. no. 8. _Summer Exhibition_, Vose Galleries, Boston, Ma., 1948, cat. no. 53. Published ReferencesLeRoy Ireland, _The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné_ (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 91, no. 360. Joyce M. Szabo, "New Accession: Sunset at Medfield," Chrysler Museum _Bulletin_ 14 (December 1984). Michael Quick, _George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné Vol. 1_ (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2007) pp. 11-12 fig. 24, 68 fig. 729, 69 & 255. IBSN-13: 978-0-8135-3832-7
