George Inness: Visionary Landscapes–NEW WORKS AND NATIVE VIEWS

May 16, 2025

May 16, 2025 - Ongoing

This salon-style reinstallation features 19 works by celebrated American landscape artist George Inness (1825–1894). Every important period of Inness’s career is represented, from his earliest, more realist work of the 1840s, rooted in European landscape conventions, to the artist’s final, more abstract expressions of his belief in the total unity of material and spiritual existence.

To celebrate the centennial of Inness’s birth on May 1, 1825, the east wall of the gallery will be newly installed with three paintings, including A Cloudy Day, Milton (ca. 1877–1880), on loan from MAM trustee Lisa Amato and her husband, Joseph. A recent donation, Coast of Cornwall (ca. 1887–1894), and a loaned work, Sunset (1888), both from Frank and Katherine Martucci will also be on view.

Furthermore, the new installation includes video interviews for three familiar works featuring Native artists and scholars G. Peter Jemison (Seneca Nation, Heron Clan), Nathan Young (Delaware Tribe of Indians, Pawnee, Kiowa), and Betsy Richards (Cherokee Nation). They will discuss these Native places from the perspectives of displacement and dwelling, history and power, and stewardship and spirit, as well as Inness as an artist and his influence.

Gail Stavitsky, Chief Curator
Laura J. Allen, Curator of Native American Art

Read about George Inness and MAM’s installation in this Wall Street Journal Review.

Learn about George Inness with Adrienne Baxter Bell, Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College and author of several books and articles on Inness.

HIGHLIGHTS

George Inness (1825–1894. Delaware Water Gap, 1857. Oil on canvas, 46 x 65 1/2 in. Gift of Mrs. F.G. Herman Fayen in memory of Mr. Fayen, 1930.2.

George Inness (1825–1894.) Montclair Sunset, ca. 1891-94. Oil on canvas, 30 7/8 x 45 7/8 in. Gift of Joyce Coe, 2004.22.

George Inness (1825–1894). Niagara Falls, 1885. Oil on panel, 16 x 24 in. Bequest of Florence O.R. Lang, 1943.39.

George Inness (1825–1894). A Cloudy Day, Milton, ca. 1877–80. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. Collection of Lisa and Joseph Amato.

^{Image Credits:}

^{George Inness (1825–1894. Delaware Water Gap, 1857. Oil on canvas, 46 x 65 1/2 in. Gift of Mrs. F.G. Herman Fayen in memory of Mr. Fayen, 1930.2.}

^{George Inness (1825–1894.) Montclair Sunset, ca. 1891-94. Oil on canvas, 30 7/8 x 45 7/8 in. Gift of Joyce Coe, 2004.22.}

^{George Inness (1825–1894). Niagara Falls, 1885. Oil on panel, 16 x 24 in. Bequest of Florence O.R. Lang, 1943.39.}

^{George Inness (1825–1894). A Cloudy Day, Milton, ca. 1877–80. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. Collection of Lisa and Joseph Amato.}

^{A gift of Frank and Katherine Martucci, the George Inness gallery opened on November 18th, 2001.}

^{George Inness: Visionary Landscapes is made possible with generous support from the Lyn and Glenn Reiter Endowed Special Exhibition Fund, The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Horowitz 19th and 20th Century Fund for American Art, the Susan V. Bershad Charitable Fund, Lisa and Joseph Amato, Cynthia Corhan-Aitken and Murray Aitken, Patti and Jimmy Elliott, Tracy Higgins and James Leitner, Toni LeQuire-Schott and Newton B. Schott, Jr., Christine James and Nick DeToustain, Robert L. Tortoriello, Margo and Frank Walter, and Joan and Donald Zief.}