Project Description
George Inness (American, 1825-1894)
On the Road to the River, 1880
Oil on board
22 x 34 inches
Signed and dated lower right: G. Inness 1880
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York (George Inness executor’s sale), February 12-14, 1895, no. 140
Joseph Hartley, 1895
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, ca. 1906
Mr. and Mrs. William Bixby, St. Louis, Missouri
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York (Bixby sale), October 23, 1957, no. 48, as White Calf, described
Wolfe collection, to 1959
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Feb. 21, 1959, no. 309, illus., as On the Road to the River, described and illus.
Virginia Bolen, then her husband Robert Whitehead, and by descent in the family
Exhibited:
New York, New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings of the Late George Inness, December 27, 1894, no. 68, as On the Road to the River, Milton
St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, Paintings from St. Louis Homes: A Collection of Works Owned in St. Louis and Lent to the Museum, 1912, no. 40 as On the Road to the River at Milton on the Hudson described and illus., lent by William K. Bixby
Literature:
LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness (1965), no. 948, listed and illus. p. 235
