George Inness
Music: Claude Debussy "Ballade"
"George Inness (May 1, 1825 – August 3, 1894) was
an influential American landscape painter
and georgist activist. His work was influenced, in turn, by
that of the old masters, the Hudson River school, the
Barbizon school, and, finally, by the theology of
Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found
vivid expression in the work of Inness' maturity.
Often called "the father of American landscape
painting,"[Inness is best known for these mature
works that not only exemplified the Tonalist
movement but also displayed an original and
uniquely American style..."
Greco