Inness Paintings
1825 - 1894 USA
End of Day, 1855
Oil on canvas, 16.5 x 11.73 inches [41.9 x 29.8 cm]
Private collection Landscapes
Inness's paintings remain, in many areas, enigmatically produced - End of Day, 1855. They are, in short, filled with capricious features. In addition to the near absence of detail in the pine powers of The Monk, we add the inscrutable foregrounds of many of Inness's most ordered compositions. In Lake Nemi, The Monk, October Noon, The Home of the Heron, The Lone Farm, Hazy Morning, Montclair, as well as in this paitnting - End of Day for example, Inness's rapidly executed brushmarks telegraph the presence, without ever representing the identities, of organic forms.
