All the Strange Hours » George Innes http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress Making and Thinking About Visual Art Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:06:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 George Inness http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/22/george-inness/ http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/22/george-inness/#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:02:28 +0000 David http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/22/george-inness/ Many landscape artists try for spectacular light effects. Mostly, they fail to make it look convincing. Georges Inness (American, 1825–1894) made it seem easy.

Early Autumn Montclair

Georgia Pines Afternoon

Home at Montclair

Sunset at Etretat

The Trout Brook

Not all of his paintings depend on special effects like this, but these are some of his best.

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