Early Moonrise in Florida
ca. 1892-1893
24 3/8 x 36 1/4 in. (61.9 x 92.1 cm)
George Inness
United States
(Newburgh, NY, 1825 – 1894, Bridge of Allan, Scotland)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
George Eastman Collection of the University of Rochester
Accession Number:
1936.61
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
George Eastman Collection
For George Inness, an adherent of the mystical Swedenborgian faith, landscape elements and colors had specific symbolic qualities. For example, he wrote that the moon is a ‘natural emblem of faith,’ reassuring the faithful that divine light still exists even though it is not directly visible in the night sky. In Inness’s philosophical system, blue is the color of faith.
[Gallery label text, 2007]