George Inness

In A Winter Sky, George Inness concentrated on depicting the effects of light and atmosphere. In this composition, the artist combined a vibrant, glowing sunset with a harsh, bleak landscape. Inness's color choice reinforces this contrast, as the warm pinks and yellows in the sky play off the cool blues of the frozen ground.

George Inness Retrospective. Paine Art Center and Gardens, Oshkosh, WI (organizer) (October 1-31, 1962).

George Inness Retrospective

Luminous Landscape: The American Study of Light, 1860-1875. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (April 18-May 11, 1966).

Luminous Landscape: The American Study of Light, 1860-1875

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Visions of Landscape: East and West

George Inness and the Visionary Landscape. National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, NY (organizer) (September 17-December 28, 2003); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (January 24-April 18, 2004).

George Inness and the Visionary Landscape

Julie Mehretu: Portals. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022).

Julie Mehretu: Portals

Leavitt Art Rooms, Hurlbert Sale (New York, 1883), cat. no. 46 as A Winter Sky; this records the 31 May 1883 sale of this painting from the William Henry Hurlbert collection.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Paine Art Center, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness (2 October-28 October 1962), cat. no. 9 as Winter, Close of Day.

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Luminous Landscape: The American Study of Light, 1860-1875 (18 April-11 May 1966), cat. no. 24, illus. as Winter, Close of Day.

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Visions of Landscape: East and West (17 February-21 March 1982)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Inness (1 April-9 June 1985); traveled to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (21 August-6 October 1985); Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (10 November 1985-12 January 1986); Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (20 February-11 May 1986); Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (22 June-7 September 1986), cat. no. 13, pp. 102-103, illus. p. 103.

New York, National Academy of Design, The Art of George Inness: A Visionary Perspective ( 17 September-12 December 2003); traveled to San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art (24 January-18 April 2004); illus. cat. no. 10, p. 81.

An oil painting depicts a muted orange and gray landscape coated in a sparse layer of snow. A swath of blue-gray clouds hover over the ground, the sun glowing red-orange behind it and sending streaks of the color through the clouds before it opens up to a light yellow-blue sky in the upper third of the painting, interrupted by occasional streaks of clouds and a cluster of birds flying at a distance on the right.

William H. Hurlbut (Sale: Leavitt Art Rooms, New York, 31 May 1883, cat. no. 46 as A Winter Sky);

A Winter Sky

George Inness

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