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The Coming Storm

Artist (American, 1825-1894)
Date1893
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions60 × 120 in. (152.4 × 304.8 cm)
Frame: 70 × 130 in. (177.8 × 330.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase from the Beaux Arts Society Fund for Acquisitions in memory of James G. Harlow, Jr.
Object number1996.119
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On View
CopyrightNo Copyright - United States
Provenance

(Inness Executor’s Sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York City, February 12-14, 1895, no. 240, withdrawn) [1]; Helen Inness Hartley [1861-1931], New York City; with Macbeth Gallery, New York City, 1906 until 1907; Helen Inness Hartley [1861-1931], New York City [2]. J. W. Young Gallery, Chicago, 1910 [3]. Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1910 [4]. City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, between 1914 and 1946 [5]; (Kende Galleries Sale, New York City, February 25, 1946, no. 55) [6]. David Findlay Galleries, New York City [7]. David Russell, Dallas [8]. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, until 1984 [9]. Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 1984 [10]. Private collection [11]. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York City, 1990 [12]. (Sotheby’s Sale, New York City, November 29, 1995, no. 132) [13]. (Sotheby’s Sale, New York City, September 26, 1996, no. 15A) [14]; purchased by Oklahoma City Art Museum; transferred to Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2002.

[1] Trumble, George Inness (1895), pg. 50; Ireland, The Works of George Inness (1965), no. 1469; and Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[2] Daughter of the artist, Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[3] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1996), no. 15A and Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[4] Borghi, Spiritual Landscape (1991), pg. 42
[5] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1996), no. 15A and Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[6] As “Approaching Storm,” Sotheby’s, Catalog (1996), no. 15A and Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[7] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1996), no. 15A and Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[8] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1996), no. 15A and Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084; the Sotheby’s catalog lists Mr. and Mrs. David Russell
[9] Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[10] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1996), no. 15A and Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[11] Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[12] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1996), no. 15A and Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[13] Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084
[14] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1996), no. 15A and Quick, Catalogue Raisonné (2007), no. 1084