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Accession #	41.775
Artist	George Inness
Title	Sunrise
Date	1887
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	frame: 45 3/8 x 60 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (115.3 x 153.7 x 11.4 cm) 30 1/16 x 45 1/16 in. (76.3 x 114.5 cm)
Signed	Signed lower left: "G. Inness 1887"
Credit Line	Bequest of Mrs. William A. Putnam
Location	American Identities: Centennial Era

Curatorial Remarks:

The vague forms of two smokestacks (attached to a printing factory near the artist\'s home in Montclair, New Jersey) are visible through the brilliant orange haze that fills this rural landscape. As an ardent follower of the Swedenborgian faith, George Inness held a profound belief in the spiritual beauty of both rural and industrial labor. Drawing on Swedenborgian ideas about perception, he strove to convey his own experience of spiritual reality through intense color and unified atmosphere.