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A Winter Sky
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About this work
In A Winter Sky , George Inness concentrated on depicting the effects of light and atmosphere. In this composition, the artist combined a vibrant, glowing sunset with a harsh, bleak landscape. Inness's color choice reinforces this contrast, as the warm pinks and yellows in the sky play off the cool blues of the frozen ground.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineA Winter Sky, 1866. George Inness (American, 1825–1894). Oil on canvas; framed: 82 x 102 x 11.5 cm (32 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 56 x 77.5 cm (22 1/16 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Gift, 1927.388
