?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
GEORGE INNESS (1825 - 1894) Thunder Storm in Medfield, Massachusetts.
Oil on canvas, circa 1877. 308x462 mm; 12⅛x18⅛ inches. Signed lower right.
Provenance Mrs. Frank H. Scott, Farmington, Connecticut, 1936. Thence by descent to Douglas Scott, Farmington, Connecticut. Vose Galleries, Boston, 1980 (label). Private collection, Philadelphia. Roger King Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island (label). Acquired from the above by private collector, Georgia, 1995. Private collection, Florida.
Exhibited "Paintings in Hartford Collections," Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 1936, no. 83 (label).
Literature M. Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, volume I, page 535-36, number 624 (illustrated).
According to the George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné (2007), like other paintings that can be dated from the same time, in Thunder Storm in Medfield, Massachusetts Inness used light brushwork, lively strokes of black paint, and scumbles, or very thin coats of opaque paint, to give the overall work a softer effect.
The work may have been cut down from its original size in the nineteenth century. It may have been slightly larger than a related painting, the Approaching Storm near the Adirondacks in the Charles Allis Art Museum in Milwaukee (12⅛x18¾ inches), and the two were likely painted about the same time.
