Editing George Inness (section)

==Mid-career==
[[File:George Inness - Lake Albano - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|''Lake Albano'', 1869, [[Phillips Collection]]]]
[[File:George Inness by Napoleon Sarony.jpg|left|thumb|George Inness, after 1875, albumen print (cabinet card) by [[Napoleon Sarony]], Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC]]
Inness moved from New York City to [[Medfield, Massachusetts]] in 1860, where he [[Inness-Fitts House and Studio/Barn|converted a barn into a studio]]. In 1862–63, he was an art teacher to [[Charles Dormon Robinson]], who became known for works of California.<ref name="Harper1913">{{cite book|last=Harper|first=Franklin|title=Who's who on the Pacific Coast: a biographical compilation of notable living contemporaries west of the Rocky Mountains|url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoonpacifi00harpgoog|access-date=January 29, 2012|edition=Public domain|year=1913|publisher=Harper Pub. Co.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoonpacifi00harpgoog/page/n488 483]–}}</ref>

Inness moved to [[Perth Amboy, New Jersey]] in 1864.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" /> (See [[George Inness House]].) He returned to Europe in the spring of 1870, living in Rome and touring [[Tivoli, Lazio|Tivoli]], [[Lake Albano]], and [[Venice]].<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" /> In 1878, he returned to New York City, taking a studio in the New York University Building.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" /> The same year, he also participated in the [[Universal Exposition]] in Paris. In addition to painting, he published art criticism in the ''[[New York Evening Post]]'' and ''[[Harper's New Monthly Magazine]]''.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" />

His work of the 1860s and 1870s often tended toward the panoramic and picturesque, topped by cloud-laden and threatening skies. It included views of his native country (''[[Autumn Oaks]]'', 1878, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=2&zoomFlag=0&viewmode=0&item=87%2E8%2E8 |title= The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: American Paintings and Sculpture|website=www.metmuseum.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316000559/http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=2&zoomFlag=0&viewmode=0&item=87.8.8 |archive-date=March 16, 2008}}</ref> ''Catskill Mountains'', 1870, [[Art Institute of Chicago]]), as well as scenes inspired by numerous travels overseas, especially to Italy and France (''The Monk'', 1873, [[Addison Gallery of American Art]];<ref>http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/display_image.php?id=49748 {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref> ''Etretat'', 1875, [[Wadsworth Atheneum]]). In terms of composition, precision of drawing, and the emotive use of color, these paintings placed Inness among the best and most successful landscape painters in America.<ref>In 1899, several years after Inness' death, a small landscape, ''Gray, Lowery Day'', 1877, sold for more than $10,000. Cikovsky, p. 142, 1985.</ref>

In 1877 Inness built a home and studio at [[Tarpon Springs, Florida]]. He ignored the characteristic palm and painted what some considered the drab pine woods. His painting ''Early Morning – Tarpon Springs'' depicts this environment.<ref>{{citation
|title=Florida. A Guide to the Southernmost State
|date=1939
|place=New York
|author=Federal Writers' Project
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|page=158}}</ref>

Eventually Inness's art expressed the influence of the theology of [[Emanuel Swedenborg]]. Of particular interest to Inness was the notion that everything in nature had a corresponding relationship with something spiritual and so received an "influx" from God in order to continually exist. Another influence upon Inness's thinking was [[William James]], also an adherent of Swedenborgianism. In particular, Inness was inspired by James's idea of consciousness as a "stream of thought", as well as his ideas concerning how mystical experience shapes one's perspective toward nature.<ref>Taylor, E. I. "The Interior Landscape: William James and George Inness on Art from a Swedenborgian Point of View," ''Archives of American Art Journal'' (Smithsonian Institution), 1997. 1-2, 2–10.</ref>

Inness was the subject of a major retrospective in 1884, organized by the [[American Art Association]], which brought him acclaim in the United States.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" /> He earned international fame when he received a gold medal at the [[Exposition Universelle (1889)|1889 Paris Exposition]].<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" />