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George Inness stood in the forefront of the American Barbizon painters, whose poetic style redirected the course of indigenous landscape painting during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. During a pivotal European trip in 1853–1855, he became strongly influenced by his French contemporaries, especially Théodore Rousseau, who worked in and around the village of Barbizon in the forest of Fontainebleu near Paris. The subjectively painted landscapes of Inness and his peers interpreted rather than recorded rustic views, their rich palettes, loose brushwork, and inventive use of light evoking palpable atmospheric effects and, above all, a strong sense of mood. This approach set them apart from the Hudson River school artists’ detailed, tightly brushed transcriptions of nature. . . .
:: Sarah Cash, Bechhoefer Curator of American Art Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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