Sunrise
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The vague forms of two smokestacks (attached to a printing factory near the artist\'s home in Montclair, New Jersey) are visible through the brilliant orange haze that fills this rural landscape. As an ardent follower of the Swedenborgian faith, George Inness held a profound belief in the spiritual beauty of both rural and industrial labor. Drawing on Swedenborgian ideas about perception, he strove to convey his own experience of spiritual reality through intense color and unified atmosphere.
Caption
George Inness (American, 1825–1894). Sunrise, 1887. Oil on canvas, frame: 45 3/8 x 60 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (115.3 x 153.7 x 11.4 cm) 30 1/16 x 45 1/16 in. (76.3 x 114.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William A. Putnam, 41.775. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Sunrise
Date
1887
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
frame: 45 3/8 x 60 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (115.3 x 153.7 x 11.4 cm) 30 1/16 x 45 1/16 in. (76.3 x 114.5 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "G. Inness 1887"
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. William A. Putnam
Accession Number
41.775
Frequent Art Questions
Where is this?
You may have read this already on the label for that painting, but if you look very, very closely, you can just make out two smokestacks from New Jersey in the sunrise haze in the distance.George Inness lived near the town of Montclair, New Jersey, and those smokestacks were part of a printing factory near the artist's home.
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