George Inness, one of the most influential American landscape painters of the nineteenth century, returned throughout his career to the woodlands and changing seasons of the American Northeast, and "Autumn Woods" reflects his mature, atmospheric style, built on soft, hazy brushwork rather than the sharp detail of the earlier Hudson River School. Inness believed, in keeping with his Swedenborgian religious convictions, that landscape painting could express spiritual truths beneath the visible surface of nature, an idea that shaped the moody, contemplative character of his later work.
Printed edge to edge on a soft, durable woven area rug with a comfortable, non-slip feel.
