Photographs of works of art by George Inness compiled by Julia G. Smith
name: label: Creator
content: Smith, Julia Goodrich, 1853-1941
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated in 2018 by the National Academy of Design, via Maura Reilley, Executive Director. The Academy received the photographs in 1929 from Julia G. Smith.
creator: label: Creator
content: Smith, Julia Goodrich, 1853-1941
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content: Photographs of works of art by George Inness compiled by Julia G. Smith
abstract: label: Summary
content: The photographs of works of art by landscape painter, George Inness, measure 1 linear foot, and date from circa 1926-1929. The collection comprises a comprehensive set of photographs of Inness's artwork compiled by his widow, Julia Goodrich Smith, shortly after his death. Smith's photographs are accompanied by a numbered index and also include one photograph of Inness, photographs of biographical items such as diplomas and certificates, and photographs of Inness's coffin and the Inness family grave site.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: George Inness, Jr. (1854-1926), was born in Paris, the son of celebrated American artist George Inness, and spent much of his life traveling throughout Europe and the United States painting landscapes and pastoral scenes.  

Inness was educated at the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, New York, and the National Academy of Design, and studied under his father and Léon Bonnat in Rome and Paris in the 1870s, before settling temporarily in Montclair, New Jersey. During the 1880s-1890s he became an established artist and in 1899 received a gold medal at the Paris Salon and became a full member of the National Academy. In 1900 he established residences in Cragsmoor, New York, and Tarpon Springs, Florida. Inness strove to distance himself from his father's approach to painting, but nevertheless remained heavily influenced by the tonalist style for which the elder George Inness was renowned.

In 1879 Inness married Julia G. Smith (1853-1941), daughter of Roswell Smith, founder of the Century Company publishers.

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Tarpon Springs holds the largest public collection of Inness's work, and he is also represented in other prominent collections including Memorial Art Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Montclair Art Museum, and the National Academy of Design. Following Inness's death in 1926, Julia G. Smith donated to the National Academy of Design a set of three binders containing the index and photographs of all her late husband's paintings described in this finding aid, with the intention of providing a resource with which to identify genuine works by Inness, and guard against forgeries.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1926-1929
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.smitjuli
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content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as one series.

Series 1: Photographs of Works of Art by George Inness, circa 1926-1929 (1 linear foot; Box 1)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and described in a finding aid by Stephanie Ashley in 2018 and the collection was digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Walton Family Foundation.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection was digitized in 2019 and is available on the Archives of American Art website.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The photographs of works of art by landscape painter, George Inness, measure 1 linear foot, and date from circa 1926-1929. The collection comprises a comprehensive set of photographs of Inness's artwork compiled by his widow, Julia Goodrich Smith, shortly after his death. Smith's photographs are accompanied by a numbered index and also include one photograph of Inness, photographs of biographical items such as diplomas and certificates, and photographs of Inness's coffin and the Inness family grave site.