George Inness: 250+ Hudson River School Paintings

(Revised 1/2015 - 250+ Larger Hudson River School Paintings with biography and annotations, formatted for Kindle HDX, HD, Kindle for iOS and Android tablets.)

GEORGE INNESS: HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL Art Book contains 250+ HD Reproductions of landscapes and genre scenes with annotations and biography. Book includes Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums of the World, and is formatted for all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).

George Inness Biography

There was a grocery store in the booming industrial hub of Newark, a few miles across the Hudson from Manhattan, that it was best to avoid. The proprietor, engrossed in his paints and brushes, had a tendency to duck under the counter to avoid the inconvenience of customers. The young man’s successful father soon realised that George was not one of his thirteen children who would follow in his commercial footsteps.
Instead, as an engraver’s apprentice and the pupil of both a local artist and the French expatriate Regis Grignoux, young Inness earned his artistic chops. Soon he was attracting the notice of both the National Academy of Design and a prominent New York art patron, Ogden Haggerty. Meanwhile, George’s own attention was drawn at Baptist church on Sunday mornings to the 17-year-old Elizabeth Hart. A year later, both George and his new bride were sailing, courtesy of Haggerty, to the wellspring of Western Art – Italy.
Inness had become an artist at a time when the so-called Hudson River School had seized the American imagination and the mantle of authentic American art. Established by Thomas Cole and carried forward by the likes of Durand, Church, and Cropsey, the ‘school’ was characterized by a passionate commitment to the realistic and minutely detailed, yet idealistic, portrayal of wild American landscapes. But, as Mr. Inness Senior could testify, George was temperamentally incapable of toeing the line drawn by
other men. (cont.)