Enjoy This Selection from the Museum's Peter A. Juley and Son Collection
Throughout the firm's long history, Peter A. Juley and Son became the largest and most respected fine arts photography studio in New York.
Enjoy This Selection from the Museum's Peter A. Juley and Son Collection Throughout the firm's long history, Peter A. Juley and Son became the largest and most respected fine arts photography studio in New York.
From 1896 to 1975, the Juleys served museums, galleries, art dealers, private collectors, corporations, conservators, and almost every major American artist. The museum's archival collection of the Juley photographs includes about 4,500 portraits of artists, from formal poses to candid shots of artists socializing, working in their studios, teaching classes, and serving as jurors for exhibitions.
George Inness (1825–1894), landscape painter, largely self-taught. Inness absorbed influences of the Hudson River and Barbizon Schools. The rich colors and emotional intensity in his later works were likely derived from his study of the pantheistic philosophy of Emanuel Swendenborg.
Pictured top: Photograph of George Inness (1825–1894). Smithsonian American Art Museum, Peter A. Juley & Son Collection
Source: Joan Stahl. American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995).
Pictured bottom: George Inness, Sundown,1884, oil, 45 x 70 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans.