- Titles Landscape Sunset (Proper)
- Medium oil on board
- Dimensions 13 7/8 × 24 7/8 in. (35.2 × 63.2 cm) frame: 21 × 31 5/8 × 3 in. (53.3 × 80.3 × 7.6 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Mr. Oliver Weston Fraser, Jr. in memory of his father, 1978.198
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- Signature Recto, lower right, paint: G. I[illegible]
- Inscription Verso, cradle slat, lower left, red marker: 78.198 Verso, frame, top frame rail, typed label: PAINTINGS BY AMERICAN ARTISTS / [scratched out] / INCORPORATED / [scratched out] / LANDSCAPE / GEORGE INNESS Verso, frame backing paper, upper left, stamp: MB [6950] in ink
- Provenance Oliver Weston Fraser, Birmingham, Alabama, by August 7, 1931 [see note 1]; consigned to MacBeth Gallery, around May 3, 1933; on deposit to a client for purchase consideration, shortly after May 6, 1933 [see note 2]; returned to Macbeth Galleries, New York, prior June 21, 1933 [see note 3]; returned to O. W. Fraser, around October 20, 1933 [see note 4]; gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1978
1. Endnotes 1 through 4 all reference documents from the following collection: Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, Box 35, Folder 92: Fraser, O.W. A photo of this work printed from photographer Lollar’s, Birmingham, Alabama, at the Archives of American Art bears the date of August 7, 1931. The earliest preserved correspondence between O. W. Fraswer and Macbeth Gallery is a letter from Macbeth Gallery to O. W. Fraser (Oliver Weston Fraser) dated May 12, 1932 discussing Fraser shipping the painting to Macbeth Gallery: “There would be no possible use in your sending your Inness to New York at this time. Along about the first of October, if things pick up and your still want to sell it, let me hear from you again.”
2. According to a letter from Macbeth Gallery to O. W. Fraser, dated May 6, 1933: “My client asked me to send the picture out to her country home on approval.”
3. Macbeth Galleries writes to O. W. Fraser on June 21, 1933: “She has changed her mind two or three times as to whether she wants to buy it. Now she has gone away until about the first of July, and although she told me to return the picture to you the last time I saw her, I am still holding on to it in the hope that she may have another change of heart when she returns.”
4. In a letter dated September 26, 1933 to William Macbeth, O. W. Fraser instructs Macbeth Gallery to hold on to the work until he can pick it up in New York around October 20, 1933.
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