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George Inness: Tragedy at Sea  wikidata:Q18589902 reasonator:Q18589902
Artist
George Inness  (1825–1894)  wikidata:Q704868
 
George Inness
Description American painter, landscape painter and visual artist
Date of birth/death 1 May 1825 / 1825 Edit this at Wikidata 3 August 1894 / 1894 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Newburgh (New York) Bridge of Allan (Scotland)
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Category:New York, Medfield (Massachusetts), Eagleswood (New Jersey), Montclair (New Jersey), France
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artist QS:P170,Q704868
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Title
Tragedy at Sea
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre marine art Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1864
date QS:P571,+1864-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 30 in (76.2 cm); width: 45.1 in (114.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,30U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,45.125U218593
institution QS:P195,Q865736
Accession number
1975.94
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history
  • Possibly Williams & Everett, Boston;
  • Robert Crannell Minor (1839-1904), Waterford, Connecticut;
  • Williams & Everett, Boston;
  • by purchase, Edwin Barry Willcox (died 1917), New York, New York;
  • Estate of Edwin Barry Willcox (represented by his sister, Katharine A. Willcox);
  • by purchase, Alexander Gaw,*) New York, New York (November 1917)
  • by purchase, J. W. Young Gallery, Chicago, (December 1917);
  • Joseph G. Butler, Jr., Youngstown, Ohio (January 26, 1918);
  • by gift, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio (1919);
  • deaccessioned and traded to J. J. Gillespie Company, Pittsburgh, Penn. [in exchange for Inness' "Misty Morning Montclair"], January 1929;
  • Ellen Gregg Ingalls (1887-1969, Mrs. Robert Ingersoll Ingalls, Sr.), Birmingham, Alabama;
  • by descent, to her granddaughter, Elesabeth Ingalls Gillet (born 1935), Birmingham, Alabama;
  • Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 1975.
*) Gaw worked for the Lincoln Safe Deposit Company, where Edwin Barry Willcox had stored the painting on and off for twenty years.
Credit line given by Mrs. Elesabeth Ingalls Gillet
Source/Photographer http://www.artsbma.org/pieces/tragedy-at-sea/1975-784/

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