PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOE AND LEE JAMAIL

GEORGE INNESS (1825-1894)
The Beeches
signed and dated 'G. Inness 1894' (lower right)
oil on canvas
42 x 32 in. (106.7 x 81.3 cm.)
Painted in 1894.

PROVENANCE
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Sale: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, Executor's Sale of Paintings by the Late George Inness, N.A., 12-14 February 1895,
lot 130, sold by the above.
Alfred Corning Clark, acquired from the above.
Elizabeth Scriven Clark, by descent, 1896.
Robert Sterling Clark, by descent, 1909.
[With]M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1913.
[With]Holland Galleries, New York, 1914.
James Buchanan Brady, New York.
Sale: American Art Galleries, New York, 14 January 1918, lot 64, sold by the above.
Holland Galleries, New York, acquired from the above.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Smathers, New York.
Parke-Bernet, New York, 6 March 1948, lot 94, sold by the above.
Mrs. S.A. Bradfield, North Carolina.
Samuel Bradfield, North Carolina.
Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, D.C., by 1979.
Sotheby's, New York, 23 April 1981, lot 65.
[With]Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas.
Christie's, New York, 4 December 1987, lot 98.
Private collection.
[With]Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

EXHIBITED
New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, 27 December 1894, no. 44.
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., 1991.

LITERATURE
"George Inness: The Characteristics of His Works as Revealed in the Present Collections," The Evening Post (New York), January 5, 1895.
Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs, vol. 9, no. 102, 1908, p. 253.
The New York Times, January 20, 1918, sec. 8, illustrated.
L. Ireland, Works of George Inness, Austin, Texas, 1965, pp. 402-03, no. 1526, illustrated.
Antiques, vol. 116, no. 5, November 1979, p. 1009, illustrated.
"Reviews," Art & Auction, vol. 3, June-July 1981, p. 59.
M. Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, pp. 441-42, no. 1150, illustrated.