A shaft of warm light from our left pierces a dark wood filled with tall trees in this horizontal landscape painting. The light falls on a stout white trunk and a portion of the moss-green forest floor near the center of the composition. The trunk is covered with patches of olive green and brown, while the other trees have high canopies of burnt-orange leaves, which reach off the top and side edges of the canvas. The ground is carpeted with growth painted in warm tones of brown and touches of scarlet red and pine green. A gray and brown boulder with a slash of rust orange near the center of…
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Sunset in the Woods

George Inness (American, 1825 - 1894)

1891

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 122.2 × 183.2 cm (48 1/8 × 72 1/8 in.) ; framed: 170.2 × 231.1 × 17.8 cm (67 × 91 × 7 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1891)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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