  About the Artwork
  
  
  This painting, which is an excellent example of lnness’s late style, depicts the artist’s orchard and farm buildings in Montclair, New Jersey. In later works, Inness developed a synthesis of realism and abstraction to achieve a spiritual response to nature, which preoccupied the artist toward the end of his life. Inness was not working directly from nature; although there are recognizable and identifiable forms and elements, he was painting from memory, bringing images together in an almost dreamlike manner.
  
  
  Title
  Apple Orchard
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1892
  
  Artist
  George Inness
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1825-1894
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events.
  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 30 × 45 1/8 inches (76.2 × 114.6 cm)
  Framed: 36 1/8 × 51 × 2 1/4 inches (91.8 × 129.5 × 5.7 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  American Art before 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Baroness von Ketteler, Henry Ledyard and Hugh Ledyard, in memory of Henry Brockholst Ledyard
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  23.100
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
