Opdateret oktober 2026 · rangeret efter vores popularitetsscore (søgninger, besøg og ordrer for hvert værk) · 470 værker af George Inness i vores katalog
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According to this ranking, Sunrise (1887) is the most famous painting by George Inness; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, holds it. It is followed by The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1867) and Two Sisters in the Garden (1882). This list draws on the 470 works by George Inness in the catalogue and records the 100 most famous, with date, holding museum and description for each entry.
The world awakens in a soft, buttery glow as the sun begins its ascent over a quiet rural meadow. A luminous, yellow sky radiates warmth, casting a gentle radiance across the sprawling field. Everything feels suspended in a thick, gentle haze that blurs the edges of reality. Two prominent trees frame the scene, their forms softened by the morning mist. One stands slender and central, while a larger, leafier tree…
The Valley of the Shadow of Death is an oil on canvas work by the American artist George Inness. Created in 1867, this piece represents a significant moment in the artist's development, moving toward a more spiritualized landscape. It is an American work that captures a sense of profound solitude within a rugged, mountainous terrain.
The air feels heavy with the scent of damp earth and blooming flora as two young women stand amidst a lush, green sanctuary. They are positioned slightly to the left, framed by the slender, reaching branches of trees that seem to lean in to witness their silent communion. A soft, diffused light filters through an overcast sky, casting gentle shadows that blur the edges of their forms. Their dresses flow…
The Monk is a landscape painting by George Inness. He created this oil on canvas in 1873 while working in Italy. A solitary figure occupies the center of the view, framed by the quietude of the natural world. The work carries the accession number 1956.6.
Early Moonrise, Florida (also known as Early Morning, Florida) is an oil on canvas created by George Inness in 1908. The work belongs to the Tonalism style, a movement characterized by the artist's focus on atmosphere and the spiritual essence of the natural world.
Royal Beech in New Forest, Lyndhurst1887 · Brooklyn Museum
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The Home of the Heron1893 · Art Institute of Chicago
13
The Goat Herder1853
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Delaware Water Gap1857
15
George Inness (1825-1894)1872 · New York Historical Society
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The Perugian Valley1873
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Passing Clouds (also known as Passing Shower)1876
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Gossip1884 · Spencer Museum of Art
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An Old Roadway1880 · Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
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Edge of the Woods1890
21
In a Shady Nook1893
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Crossing the Ford1848 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Near Perugia, Italy1879 · Philadelphia Museum of Art
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A Marine1874 · Art Institute of Chicago
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In the Adirondacks1862 · Yale University Art Gallery
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Morning1878 · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
27
Sunset in Georgia1890
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Landscape with Figure1878 · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Summer in the Catskills1867 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Hudson River Valley1867 · Detroit Institute of Arts
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Castel Gandolfo1874 · Portland Art Museum
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In the Berkshires1848 · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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The Moon at Night1890 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Moonrise1891 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Mill Pond1889 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Summer Days1857 · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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a passing shower
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End of Day Montclair
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November Montclair1893
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Sunlit Valley1893 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Afterglow1893 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Lonely Pine1893 · Detroit Institute of Arts
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Summer Days, Cattle Drinking Late Summer, Early Autumn1857 · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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Lake Albano, Sunset1874 · National Gallery of Art
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Christmas Eve (also known as Winter Moonlight)1866
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The Old Mill1849 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Autumn Meadows1869 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Harvest, Montclair, New Jersey1884 · Art Institute of Chicago
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A gray, lowery day
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Afterglow
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Threatening1891 · Art Institute of Chicago
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A Short Cut, Watchung Station, N.J.1883 · Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Evening Landscape1863
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Woodland Vista1846 · Museum of Fine Arts
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Landscape1842 · El Paso Museum of Art
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Afternoon1846 · New Britain Museum of American Art
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Hils and Dales1846
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Landscape1846
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In the White Mountains, Summer1859
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Moonlight, Tarpon Springs1892 · The Phillips Collection
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The Wood Chopper1849 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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A Silver Morning1884 · Art Institute of Chicago
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View in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Clearing Off after a September Storm1849 · Buffalo Bill Center of the West
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Page from a Sketch Book, (painting)1850
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a bit of the roman aqueduct1852
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The Lackaanna Valley1855 · National Gallery of Art
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Summer Morning1850
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Early Morning, Tarpon Springs1892 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Durham, Connecticut1858 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Road to the Farm1862 · Museum of Fine Arts
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Villa Borghese, Rome1857 · Museum of Fine Arts
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Sunset Landscape, Medfield1861 · Museum of Fine Arts
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Twilight1860 · Williams College Museum of Art
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Roman Campagna1858 · New Britain Museum of American Art
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On the Delaware River1861 · Brooklyn Museum
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Lake Nemi1857 · Yale University Art Gallery
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Clearing Up1860
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A View Near Medfield1861 · Harvard Art Museums
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Pastoral Scene1857
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scene on the hudson1861
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Landscape with Sheep1858
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Old Elm at Medfield1860
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Spring1860
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Oaks Near Medfield1863
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Dawn1860
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Landscape with Sheep1858
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Sunset1860
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Winter Evening, Montclair1860
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Lake Nemi1857 · Yale University Art Gallery
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Marine off Big Rock1857
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Landscape1860
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Phantom Sea1856
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St. Peter's, Rome1857
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Delaware Valley1860 · Brigham Young University Museum of Art
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The Deleware Water Gap1861
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Coast Scene1857
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Fisherman in a Stream1857
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Landscape1860 · National Academy of Design
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The Huntsman1859
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Medway, Massachusetts1869 · Saint Louis Art Museum
The four subjects most frequently represented among these works, each with its best-known example.
De 8 museer, der rummer flest af malerierne på denne side.
| Museum | By | Værker af George Inness | Malerier fra denne liste |
|---|---|---|---|
 Art Institute of Chicago |
Chicago | 26 | Two Sisters in the Garden, The Home of the Heron, Crossing the Ford |
 Museum of Fine Arts |
Boston | 15 | Woodland Vista, The Road to the Farm, Villa Borghese, Rome |
 Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum |
Madrid | 6 | Morning, In the Berkshires, Summer Days |
 Cleveland Museum of Art |
Cleveland | 12 | The Wood Chopper, Durham, Connecticut |
 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
New York | 8 | Sunrise, Autumn Meadows |
 Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Philadelphia | 8 | Near Perugia, Italy, A Short Cut, Watchung Station, N.J. |
 Brooklyn Museum |
Brooklyn | 7 | Royal Beech in New Forest, Lyndhurst, On the Delaware River |
 National Gallery of Art |
Washington | 5 | Lake Albano, Sunset, The Lackaanna Valley |
Select a decade to display its principal painting.
The afternoon sun filters through a soft, hazy atmosphere, casting a gentle light over a shallow riverbed. Here, the world moves at the pace of a slow current. A rider on horseback leads the way, navigating the rippling water alongside cattle and sheep. There is a profound sense of rhythm in this movement, a steady, purposeful crossing that defines the essence of rural life. Large, towering trees frame the scene…
The Valley of the Shadow of Death is an oil on canvas work by the American artist George Inness. Created in 1867, this piece represents a significant moment in the artist's development, moving toward a more spiritualized landscape. It is an American work that captures a sense of profound solitude within a rugged, mountainous terrain.
The Monk is a landscape painting by George Inness. He created this oil on canvas in 1873 while working in Italy. A solitary figure occupies the center of the view, framed by the quietude of the natural world. The work carries the accession number 1956.6.
The world awakens in a soft, buttery glow as the sun begins its ascent over a quiet rural meadow. A luminous, yellow sky radiates warmth, casting a gentle radiance across the sprawling field. Everything feels suspended in a thick, gentle haze that blurs the edges of reality. Two prominent trees frame the scene, their forms softened by the morning mist. One stands slender and central, while a larger, leafier tree…
Sunrise (1887), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The following entries are The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1867) and Two Sisters in the Garden (1882).
62 years: George Inness was born in 1825 and Sunrise is dated 1887.
Sunrise, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Two Sisters in the Garden, The Monk, Slow Fading Day, Evening Glow, Harvest Moon, Spirit of Autumn, the old farm, montclair og Early Moonrise, Florida (also known as Early Morning, Florida). The list above records the date and holding museum of each.
The catalogue records 470 works by George Inness, dated between 1842 and 1893.
Principally in Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) og Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid). The museum table above gives the full distribution.
In 1860s: 25 of the 100 works listed on this page are dated to that period, including The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
The earliest dated work listed here is Landscape (1842); the latest is the old farm, montclair (1893).
Landscape (24), Sky (21) og Trees (16), out of the 100 works listed on this page.
Oil On Canvas, in 35 of the 100 works listed on this page.
Tonalism og American impressionism, as documented by the works on this page.
Two Sisters in the Garden, The Home of the Heron og Crossing the Ford are among the 15 works on this page in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
Yes. Each work listed on this page can be ordered from its own entry as a hand-painted oil reproduction or a fine art print, in a size of your choice.
George Inness står som en central skikkelse i den amerikanske impressionisme – en bevægelse, der søgte at indfange flygtige øjeblikke af skønhed og følelse gennem lysende farvepaletter og løse penselstrøg. Inness, der blev født i Newburgh, New York, udviklede en kunstnerisk vision, som prioriterede introspektion og spirituel fordybelse, hvilket afspejlede hans dybe engagement i filosofiske idéer. I modsætning til de storslåede fortællinger, som Hudson River School fremmede, var hans landskaber gennemsyret af en mærkbar sindsro, der skildrede landlige scener og dyreliv med en bemærkelsesværdig følsomhed over for lys og atmosfære. Hans dedikation til at indfange den naturlige verdens essens resulterede i værker, der transcenderer ren repræsentation og i stedet tilbyder et vindue ind til en mere meditativ virkelighed.
Hans formative år var dybt præget af mødet med transcendentalistiske tænkere som Ralph Waldo Emerson og Henry David Thoreau. Deres vægt på intuition og den spirituelle forbindelse med naturen formede hans kunstneriske sansabilitet gennemgribende. Selvom han modtog formel træning ved Yale University, var meget af hans sande uddannelse selvstændig. I midten af 1850'erne, en afgørende periode for optagelsen af impressionistiske teknikker, rejste Inness til Paris. Her fordybede han sig i tidens spirende bevægelser og studerede under mestre som Gustave Courbet og Jean-François Millet. Disse møder cementerede hans engagement i at indfange umiddelbare visuelle sensationer frem for metodisk at genskabe virkeligheden.
I Paris begyndte Inness at eksperimentere med plein air maleri, hvor han arbejdede udendørs direkte fra naturen for at udvikle en distinkt stil karakteriseret ved subtile farvegradueringer og tekstureret penselarbejde. Denne periode var essentiel i hans overgang mod en mere atmosfærisk tilgang til landskabet. Han bevægede sig væk fra de rigide detaljer fra sine tidlige inspirationskilder og søgte i stedet at indfange "kraften i motivet" og en følelse af storhed, der undgik at blive forringet af ligegyldige detaljer. Hans senere værker blev i stigende grad påvirket af Emanuel Swedenborgs teologi, hvilket introducerede et dybere lag af spiritualisme i hans modne kompositioner.
Omfanget af hans kunstneriske udvikling kan ses gennem flere nøgleelementer i hans teknik:
Gennem en flittig karriere, der strakte sig over mere end fyrre år og omfattede over 1.000 malerier, forbliver Inness' værk en hjørnesten i amerikansk kunsthistorie. Hans evne til at forene indflydelserne fra Barbizon-skolen med en unikt amerikansk sansabilitet gjorde det muligt for ham at blive en førende kunstner-filosof i sin generation. Ikoniske værker som The Dark Side of Twilight og Winter Landscape fortsætter med at blive fejret for deres mesterlige skildring af naturens forgængelige kvaliteter. Ved at fokusere på den indre, spirituelle respons på landskabet efterlod George Inness en vedvarende arv, der fortsat inspirerer kunstnere, som stræber efter ekspressiv dybde og emotionel resonans i deres arbejde.
