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A Winter Sky

1866
(American, 1825–1894)
America
oil on canvas
Framed: 82 x 102 x 11.5 cm (32 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 56 x 77.5 cm (22 1/16 x 30 1/2 in.)
The Charles W. Harkness Gift 1927.388
Location: not on view
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George Inness originally included a figure standing at the left edge of the pond, which he later painted over so that it is no longer visible.

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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.
Oil painting of a muted orange and grey landscape coated in a sparse layer of snow. A swath of blue-grey clouds hover over the ground, the sun glowing red 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.

A Winter Sky

1866

George Inness

(American, 1825–1894)
America

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