New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Reinhardt & Son Purchase
% Canvases by Noted
Landscape Artist
WILL BE EXHIBITED
HERE NEXT MONTH
Sale, Arranged by Paint
er's Son, Arouses Interest
in Art Circles

Much interest was aroused in art
circles yesterday by an announcement
that George Inness. jr., had sold tc
Henry Reinhardt e. Son, of 500 Fifth
Avenue, the collection of twenty-five
paintings by Mr.. Innesss father which
the lnness family retained when the
noted American landscape painter:
works were auctioned by the American
Art Galleries. the year following hi:
death, in 1894 The Reinhardt firm is
reported to have paid 100000 for the
canvases.
The paintings now sold include
masterpieces for which the son and
widow of the artist had refused many
large offers from private collectors
and dealers. The collection is said
TO comprise some of inness's best ard
largest paintings.
The twenty-five canvases will be
placed on public exhibition at the
Reinhardt Galleries about the middle
OF December and will later be ex-
hibited in Chicago.
This is the largest collection OF
works by lnnoss ever sold privately
In 1910 Henry Reinhardt g. Son bought
of Emerson McMilin his collection of
sixteen works by Inness and later sold
them to Edward Butler, of Chicago.
president of Butler Brothers, for
100000. Mr.. Butler presented the
20 ri Tpctituto Of Chi.
cago. This was the most important
previous private sale Of lnness's works.
Two Important Canvases
Probably the most important can
vases in the collection disposed OF yes
terday are two paintings of Niagara
Falls, each Of them 5 feet 10 inches
wide and feet 9 inches Nigh. They
were painted in 1884, though one bears
the date 1898. This is explained by
the fact that il was the great land
scapc artists custom to keep his paint
ings in his studio, sometimes for years,
painting a little on them now and then,
until he obtained just the tonal effects
he wished.
One Of the Niagara pictures shows
a view looking straight toward the
falls, with the islands and both sides
of the river showing. This painting
was sold by the artist to the late Ros-
we'll Smith, whose daughter, Julia,
married George Inness, jr. Mr. Smith
bequeathed the work TO his daughter,
and thus it returned to the lnness fam
lily. The picture is a striking record
of the immensely and grandeur OF Nj
agara Falls.
The other picture gives a nearer and
even more magnificent view Of the
Horseshoe Bend. The water is de-
picted with rich greens and blues; in
the spray below there is the suggestion
of a rainbow; a solitary gull flies IN
the mist; in the distance the wooded
heights are masterfully suggested.
A Typical Late Inness
"The Sunburst," a typical late In
ness. painted the year before his
death, depicts a woodland with grassy
plots, the rays of the setting sun
bursting through the trees. A golden,
hazy tone suffuses the entire compost
ton. The size of the painting is 80 by
AZ inches. "The Greensward" is a
similar painting, produced in the same
wear. II gives the artists impression
of a wood in springtime, in hazy,
silvery tone.
One of Inness's few figure subjects,
"The Veteran" is included in the col
lection. Ii shows an old man hobbling
down a path from house at the edge
Of wood. 1t combines landscape and
genre painting.
Other subjects in the 100000 col
lection are "Medfeld Oak" "The Green
Hillside" "The Apple Tree" THE
Woodchopper," 1.-THE Windstorm,
"The Hayfield," "The Coming Storm"
Monte Lucia" Gate at Albano' and
18Th. MoIal