The Home of the Heron | George Inness | 1893 19th Century Additionally

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showing its spread wings

This 19th century vanitas still life depicts a human skull draped in a dark hood

the abandoned structure evokes a sense of solitude

Warm light spilling from the windows contrasts with the cool night tones

The Home of the Heron | George Inness | 1893 19th Century AdditionallyGeorge Inness (May 1, 1825 August 3, 1894) was a prominent American landscape painter. One of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced, in turn, by the Old Masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found vivid expression in the work of Inness's maturity (18791894). Inness as one of America's greatest artists. Often called