''The Lackawanna Valley'' is a
c. 1855 painting by the American artist
George Inness
George Inness (May 1, 1825 – August 3, 1894) was a prominent American landscape painter.
Now recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced by the Hudson River School at the s ...
. Painted in
oil on canvas
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest o ...
, it is one of Inness' most well-known works.
[Cikovsky, Quick, 74] It is in the collection of the
National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C.
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The painting was commissioned from Inness by
John Jay Phelps the first president of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and depicts the Lackawanna Valley in Pennsylvania at the site of the railroad's first roundhouse in
Scranton
Scranton is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Lackawanna County. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 U.S. census, Scranton is the largest city in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Wyoming V ...
.
Notes
References
* Bell, Adrienne Baxter. ''George Inness and the Visionary Landscape''. National Academy of Design, New York, 2003.
* Cikovsky, Jr., Nicolai; Quick, Michael. ''George Inness''. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985.
Stavriannos, Ioannis K. ''Images and words: change and chaos in American culture''National Gallery of Art
1855 paintings
Landscape paintings
American paintings
Collections of the National Gallery of Art
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
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