George Inness
The Lackawanna Valley
185586 x 127.3 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: G. Inness
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 821
Provenance
Commissioned c. 1856 by the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, Scranton, Pennsylvania
The artist, from 1891
by inheritance 1894 to his daughter, Mrs. Jonathan Scott Hartley, New York
her sale, American Art Association, New York, 24 March 1927, nr. 76, as The First Roundhouse of the D.L. and W.R.R. at Scranton
with Henry Schultheis Co., New York
sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 24 February 1938, nr. 54, as The First Roundhouse of the D.L. & W. Railroad, Scranton, Pennsylvania
with Henry Schultheis Co., New York
sold 24 May 1944 to M. Knoedler & Co., New York
purchased February 1945 by Millicent Rogers (Mrs. Huttleson Rogers, 1902-1953), Washington, D.C.
gift 1945 to NGA
Other works by George Inness
Over the River
Autumn Gold
1888
1888
Etretat
1875
1875
View of the Tiber near Perugia
1874
1874
Early Morning, Tarpon Springs
1892
1892