American 1825-1894
Landscape (Woods), circa 1866
Watercolor and gouache on gray-blue paper
10 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches

Provenance:
The artist
George Walter Vincent Smith, from the above probably on Apr. 14, 1870
R. G. Shurtleff, from the above
M. Clara Shurtleff, daughter of the above
George Walter Vincent Smith, returned from the above in 1921
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA by 1923
Skinner, Boston, Nov. 26, 1985, lot 86 (as Woods)
with Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York, 1985
Private Collection, 1985
Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, 2006

Exhibited:
Wilmington, DE, University of Delaware and Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Delaware Art Center, American Painting, 1857-1869, 1962, no. 59, listed p. 80
Springfield, MA, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 19th Century American Drawings and Watercolors, 1971
New York, Davis and Long Co., George Inness: Watercolors and Drawings, 1978, no. 6, as Woods
Montclair, NJ, The Montclair Art Museum, A Love Affair: 50 Years of Collecting American Art, 1988, no. 54

Literature:
LeRoy Ireland, Works of George Inness, Austin, TX, London, 1965, p. 86, illus., no. 338
Dean Flower and Francis Murphy, A Catalogue of American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings (to 1923) in the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA, 1976, p. 51, illus. p. 99
Kathleen Adain Foster, Makers of the American Watercolor Movement: 1860-1890, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 171, 173-175, 177, Illus. 6
Michael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, 1841-1879, 2007, New Brunswick, NJ and London, pp. 259-260, no. 263, illus. p. 259, pl. 63, p. 140

Framed 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches