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Sunny Autumn Day
George Inness1892
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Highly prolific, Inness created more than 1,000 works during a career lasting 50 years. Dated just two years before his death, <em>Sunny Autumn Day</em> epitomizes his late style in which the physical landscape is transformed into something akin to a spiritual apparition. Featuring blurred forms and atmospheric effects from translucent colors, this scene reflects Inness’s mystical view of the natural world.
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- Title: Sunny Autumn Day
- Creator: George Inness (American, 1825–1894)
- Date Created: 1892
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 111.4 x 137.5 x 12.1 cm (43 7/8 x 54 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 81 x 106 cm (31 7/8 x 41 3/4 in.); Former: 101 x 127 x 7.6 cm (39 3/4 x 50 x 3 in.)
- Provenance: Thomas B. Clarke, New York, NY [1884-1931], purchased from artist1, (American Art Galleries, American Art Association, New York, Feb. 14-18, 1899, no. 184, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey J. Blair), Chauncey J. [1843–1916] and Mary Mitchell Blair [1856-1940], Chicago1, Walter Clark Runyon [1857-1929] and Berenice Agnew Runyon [b. 1873], Scarsdale, NY1, (Macbeth Gallery, New York, and George E. Gage Gallery, Cleveland, sold to Elizabeth Bingham Blossom)1, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.578
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "G. Inness 1892:
- Fun Fact: Inness died while viewing a sunset, proclaiming, "Oh, how beautiful!” and falling to the ground.
- Department: American Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: America, 19th century
- Credit Line: Anonymous Gift
- Collection: American - Painting
- Accession Number: 1956.578
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