Studio Montclair and the Montclair Art Museum partnered to create a unique exhibition of art inspired by a new installation of works by George Inness curated from the Museum’s extensive collection. The Montclair Art Museum collection is regarded by the renowned Inness scholar and local resident, Dr. Adrienne Baxter Bell as “the greatest collection of Inness paintings in the world.”

Inness believed that natural forms were manifestations of the divine; he referred to this spiritual dimension as “the reality of the unseen.” A master of essentials, he felt that a literal copying of nature would record only its transitory and fragmentary aspects.

In this exhibition, curator Virginia S. Block selected artists whose works are visibly inspired by master painter George Inness, his colors, his subject matter, his style, and his spirituality.