The Brook, Montclair, George Inness
The scene in this painting is a view of Toney’s Brook in Montclair, New Jersey, where the mature artist moved with his family to set up his studio in the summer of 1878. It was in Montclair where Inness created some of his most memorable tonalist landscapes.
George Inness (1825-1894) was a prominent American landscape painter.
One of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced, in turn, by the Old Masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found vivid expression in the work of Inness's maturity.
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