Provenance
The artist.
Elizabeth Hart Inness, Montclair, New Jersey, wife of the above.
Helen Inness Hartley, New York, by descent from the above.
Macbeth Gallery, New York, circa 1906.
Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, 1910.
Florence Scott Libbey, Toledo, Ohio.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1912.
Literature
(Probably) W.H. Downes, F.T. Robinson, "Some Living American Painters: Critical Conversations by Howe and Torrey," The Art Interchange, vol. XXXII, no. 4, April 1894, p. 101.
"The Autumn Academy," New York Daily Tribune, December 22, 1895, p. 7 (as After a Spring Shower at Montclair).
Toledo Museum of Art, Catalogue: Permanent Collection, Toledo, Ohio, 1913, p. 9.
L.M. Bryant, What Pictures to See in America, New York, 1915, p. 222.
"The Maurice A. Scott Gallery," Museum News: The Toledo Museum of Art, no. 82, June 1938, n.p.
L. Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, Austin, Texas, 1965, pp. 382-83, no. 1465, illustrated.
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 65, 151, pl. 68, illustrated (as After a Spring Shower, Montclair).
N. Cikovsky, "The Civilized Landscape," in George Inness, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1985, p. 41, fig. 21, illustrated (as After a Spring Shower, Montclair).
M. Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, p. 405, no. 1108, illustrated.
Q.R. Skrabec, Jr., Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2014, p. 148.
Exhibited
New York, Art House, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, First Annual Summer Exhibition, June 1893, no. 83.
New York, National Academy of Design, Fourteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1895-1896, no. 172.
(Possibly) New York, Vanderbilt Gallery, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, May 10-19, 1900, p. 9, no. 24.
(Possibly) Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, 1912, p. 19, no. 49.
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