Give a Painter His Due: Inness Deserves Top Honors
What standing does the landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894) have in the history of American art? As a student, I remember Inness occupying a marginal nook, his place obscured by the homegrown transcendentalism of the Hudson River School and by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the holy trinity of 19th-century American painting. Read More