Editing George Inness (section)

==Late career==
[[File:The Storm George Inness 1885.jpeg|thumb|right|''The Storm'', oil on canvas, 1885, [[Reynolda House Museum of American Art]]]]
[[File:George Inness Signature.jpg|thumb|George Inness signature from 1885]]
After Inness settled in [[Montclair, New Jersey]] in 1885,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Montclair Art Museum Gallery Will Be Dedicated to Works by George Inness; with essay by Diane P. Fisher |url=https://www.tfaoi.org/aa/2aa/2aa574.htm |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=www.tfaoi.org |quote=George Inness settled in Montclair, New Jersey in 1885, living and working there until his death in 1894.}}</ref> and particularly in the last decade of his life, he expressed this mystical component by a more abstracted handling of shapes, softened edges, and saturated color (''October'', 1886, [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]), a profound and dramatic juxtaposition of sky and earth (''Early Autumn, Montclair'', 1888, [[Montclair Art Museum]]),<ref>http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/display_image.php?id=16685 {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref> an emphasis on the intimate landscape view (''Sunset in the Woods'', 1891, [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]]), and an increasingly personal, spontaneous, and often violent handling of paint.<ref>"The energy of his attack upon a canvas (in this case it was literally an attack), the rapidity and accuracy of his drawing and brushwork and the amount of space he would cover in a few moments, was simply marvelous to watch". Account of Arthur Turnbull Hill, {{harvnb|Bell|2003|p=46}}.</ref><ref>As early as 1871, in ''Old Aqueduct, Camapagna, Rome'', his powers of suggestion are already evident, as described in this unique passage: "In this landscape painting, he used the virtuosic brushstroke not so much to represent sheep as to present to his viewers the ontological ''essence'' of sheep." {{harvnb|Bell|2003|p=138}}.</ref> It is this last quality in particular which distinguishes Inness from those painters of like sympathies who are characterized as [[Luminism (American art style)|Luminist]]s.<ref>Bell, p. 37, 2004.</ref>

In a published interview, Inness maintained that "The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature."<ref>"A Painter on Painting", ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine 56'', p. 461. February 1878.</ref> His abiding interest in spiritual and emotional considerations did not preclude Inness from undertaking a scientific study of color,<ref>"You can only achieve something if you have an ambition so powerful as to forget yourself, or if you are up on the science of your art. If a man can be an eternal God when he is outside, then he is all right; if not, he must fall back on science." Cikovsky, p. 136, 1985.</ref> nor a mathematical,<ref>Bell, page 28, 2004.</ref> structural approach to composition: "The poetic quality is not obtained by eschewing any truths of fact or of Nature...Poetry is the vision of reality."<ref>Cikovsky, p. 182, 1985.</ref>

Inness died in 1894 at [[Bridge of Allan]] in Scotland.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" /> According to his son, he was viewing the sunset, when he ''threw up his hands into the air and exclaimed, "My God! oh, how beautiful!"'', fell to the ground, and died minutes later.<ref>Bell, p. 64, 2004.</ref> A public funeral for Inness was held at the National Academy of Design. A memorial exhibition was conducted at the Fine Arts Building in New York City.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" />

He is buried in Montclair, New Jersey's [[Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey)|Rosedale Cemetery]], as is his namesake son.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rosedale Cemetery Walking Guide of Notable Interments |url=https://rosedalecemetery.org/wp-content/uploads/RosedaleCemetery_BF-Walking-Guide_Q07999_D2.pdf |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=rosedalecemetery.org}}</ref> The [[Montclair Art Museum]] is the only museum in the world that has a gallery dedicated to Inness and as of 2023 has a renowned collection of 24 works by Inness.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Esplund |first=Lance |date=January 25, 2023 |title='George Inness: Visionary Landscapes' Review: Enchanted by the Light |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-inness-visionary-landscapes-review-enchanted-by-the-light-11674685589 |website=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref> 
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