Identifier: lifeletters00inne (find matches)
Title: Life, art, and letters of George Inness
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Inness, George
Subjects: Inness, George, 1825-1894
Publisher: The Centry Co.
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
s complete, andthere stood the tub in all its glory of green. It wasso beautiful that I was almost frightened. Pop tookme by the hand and led me from the room. Fromthat time until we moved to the country, Medfield,Massachusetts, most of my memoiy seems to be ablank. But before going into the Medfield period, whichwas one of the most important in my fathers life, Iwant to go back and trace the early steps that led upto the achievements of those maturer years in Massa-chusetts. Much has been written to give the impression thatmy father sprang from poor and humble folk, andthat, like Benjamin West, the one-time president ofthe Royal Academy, and others, he had to resort tosuch measures as cutting off the cats tail to obtain apaint-brush, and use the juice of huckleberry-pie andraspberry jam for colors with which to paint his mas-terpieces. Such things teach a fine moral for theschool reader, but the obstacles with which my fatherhad to contend in his early life were not financial ones. 4
Text Appearing After Image:
GEORGE INNESS, JR. BOYHOOD AND YOUTH His parents were well-to-do people and for the timein which they lived were considered rich. My grandfather was a prosperous merchant of Scotch descent. lie was energetic and thrifty and was ambitious for his childrens success. Having made his fortune early in life he retired from activebusiness and bought a farm near Newburg, NewYork, more, I fancy, for recreation than for profit.It was there on May 1, 1825, that George Inness wasborn. He was the fifth of thirteen children. All hisbrothers entered mercantile life and became verysuccessful business men. When George was only a few months old, and be-fore the time of Hudson River boats, the elder In-ness moved his family to New York in an antiquatedvessel of some sort. George, being an infant, waslaid in a basket so that the perilous journey might bemore comfortably made. Four years later they moved to Newark, NewJersey, where my fathers boyhood was spent. New-ark was then a little country town, and

Note About Images