George Inness (1825-1894)
Coming Storm
signed and dated 'G. Inness 1864' (lower right)
oil on canvas
16 1/4 x 24 1/8 in. (41.3 x 61.3 cm.)
Painted in 1864.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Mr. Seabury, by February 1875.
Sale, Doll & Richards, Boston, February 26-27, 1875, no. 83, sold by the above.
Samuel Hammond Russell (1823-1894), Boston, by 1875.
Lady Edith (née Russell) Playfair (1848-1932), London, daughter of the above, by 1902-1916.
John Levy Galleries, New York, by 1916.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired from the above, 1916. (as The Coming Storm)
Harold Willis Nichols (1883-1973), Cincinnati, acquired from the above, 1920.
Mary Osgood (née Nichols) Keasbey, Jr. (1923-1979), New York, daughter of the above, from the above.
Estate of the above, 1979.
Betty Krulik Fine Art, Ltd., Irvington, New York, consigned from the above, March 2008.
Meredith Long & Company, Houston, and Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, November 2008. (as The Coming Storm)
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Exhibited
Boston, Sowle's, circa August 5, 1865.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 29-October 25, 1877.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., 10th Annual Summer Exhibition, 1917, no. 26. (as The Coming Storm)
Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, on loan until 2008.

Literature
The Evening Post, New York, August 8, 1865, cover page.
Museum of Fine Arts, Sixth Catalogue of the Collection of Ancient and Modern Works of Art Given or Lent to the Trustees, Boston, 1877, p. 54, no. 109. (as The Coming Thunder-Gust, Raritan River)
L. Ireland, D.B. Goodall, R.G. McIntyre, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, Austin, 1965, p. 74-75 no. 294, illustrated.
M. Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Two, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, p. 238-39, no. 225, illustrated.