The Lackawanna Valley Explained

The Lackawanna Valley
Artist:	George Inness
Year:	c. 1855
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Height Metric:	86
Width Metric:	128
Metric Unit:	cm
Imperial Unit:	in
City:	Washington, D.C.
Museum:	National Gallery of Art

The painting was commissioned from Inness in 1855 by John Jay Phelps the first president of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and was meant to be an advertisement for his railroad company.^[2] It depicts the Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania at the site of the railroad's first roundhouse in Scranton.

References

• Bell, Adrienne Baxter. George Inness and the Visionary Landscape. National Academy of Design, New York, 2003.
• Cikovsky, Jr., Nicolai; Quick, Michael. George Inness. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985.
• Stavriannos, Ioannis K. Images and words: change and chaos in American culture
• National Gallery of Art

Notes and References

1. Cikovsky, Quick, 74
2. E.H. Gombrich, Art And Illusion, A study in the psychology of pictorial representation, Phaidon Press * London, 1969, p.55