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George Inness and the unfinished painting.

From: The Magazine Antiques  |  Date: 11/1/2003  |  Author: Bell, Adrienne Baxter

The communicative power of the unfinished work of art was a primary source of inspiration for the American landscape painter George Inness (Fig.1). He recognized the heightened capacity of an unfinished painting or sculpture to conjure ideas and emotions, and for artistic, historical, psychological, jurisdictional, personal, and theological reasons he mined the unfinished work of art for a pictorial grammar on which to build a new language of landscape painting. His late landscapes ...

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