Inness
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- proper noun
- She knew she had it: The "Durand" was an Inness.
- George Inness
- landscapes of Inness
- American painter Inness
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He had a George Inness, American landscape painter, 1825-1894.
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In the mountains to more closely match the visual take-away and the methods that Inness used to title his own works.
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History has been corrected and the mystery solved: George Inness
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A piece of artwork long thought to be painted by Asher B. Durand was actually painted by George Inness.
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Adrian Inness
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Canterbury presented her evidence to art historian and author of the 2007 publication, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, Michael Quick.
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Quick not only decided that it was painted by American landscape legend George Inness, he was able to pinpoint the date of its creation to roughly 1850, a time when the painter was working with a series of similar nature-rich Berkshire scenes.
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George Inness, Stream in the Mountains formerly: In the Woods, c. 1850, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, bequest of Cecil A. Keating, 1931.6
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In The Last Sacred Place in North America, Stephen Haven has built a seaworthy vessel, a container ship for everything from Ping Pong to the California Plum, from George Inness to Mark Rothko.
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George Inness is known for his masterful landscapes that capture the beauty of nature.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Inness is a family name probably from the old Gaelic word innis, meaning 'island' or 'meadow', so it may have begun as the name of a place. Today Inness is best known as the surname of the American landscape painter George Inness, which is why you see it used as an artist's name.