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"measurements": "Framed: 82 x 102 x 11.5 cm (32 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 56 x 77.5 cm (22 1/16 x 30 1/2 in.)",
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"title": "George Inness Retrospective",
"description": "George Inness Retrospective. Paine Art Center and Gardens, Oshkosh, WI (organizer) (October 1-31, 1962).",
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"title": "Luminous Landscape: The American Study of Light, 1860-1875",
"description": "Luminous Landscape: The American Study of Light, 1860-1875. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (April 18-May 11, 1966).",
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"title": "Visions of Landscape: East and West",
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"title": "George Inness and the Visionary Landscape",
"description": "George Inness and the Visionary Landscape. National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, NY (organizer) (September 17-December 28, 2003); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (January 24-April 18, 2004).",
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"title": "Julie Mehretu: Portals",
"description": "Julie Mehretu: Portals. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022).",
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"description": "Leavitt Art Rooms, Hurlbert Sale (New York, 1883), cat. no. 46 as A Winter Sky; this records the 31 May 1883 sale of this painting from the William Henry Hurlbert collection.",
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"description": "Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Paine Art Center, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness (2 October-28 October 1962), cat. no. 9 as Winter, Close of Day.",
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"description": "Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Luminous Landscape: The American Study of Light, 1860-1875 (18 April-11 May 1966), cat. no. 24, illus. as Winter, Close of Day.",
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"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Visions of Landscape: East and West (17 February-21 March 1982)",
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"description": "New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Inness (1 April-9 June 1985); traveled to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (21 August-6 October 1985); Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (10 November 1985-12 January 1986); Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (20 February-11 May 1986); Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (22 June-7 September 1986), cat. no. 13, pp. 102-103, illus. p. 103.",
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"description": "New York, National Academy of Design, The Art of George Inness: A Visionary Perspective ( 17 September-12 December 2003); traveled to San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art (24 January-18 April 2004); illus. cat. no. 10, p. 81.",
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"did_you_know": "George Inness originally included a figure standing at the left edge of the pond, which he later painted over so that it is no longer visible.",
"description": "In A Winter Sky, George Inness concentrated on depicting the effects of light and atmosphere. In this composition, the artist combined a vibrant, glowing sunset with a harsh, bleak landscape. Inness's color choice reinforces this contrast, as the warm pinks and yellows in the sky play off the cool blues of the frozen ground.",
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"citation": "\"Bequest of Mrs. Charles W. Harkness.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 63.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 63",
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"citation": "\u201cA Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21\u201335.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 29, no. 107",
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