Landscape — Inness Tapestry Blanket

George Inness's simply titled "Landscape" reflects the soft, atmospheric style of his mature career, in which specific topographical detail gave way to mood, light, and the emotional character of a scene. Rather than recording an exact, identifiable place, Inness used landscape as a vehicle for the spiritual and poetic concerns shaped by his Swedenborgian religious beliefs, which held that the visible world was a symbol of unseen divine truth. His loose, hazy brushwork and muted color mark a deliberate departure from the sharply detailed panoramas of the earlier Hudson River School.

Jacquard-woven as a soft, double-sided tapestry throw with fringed edges — a warm layer for the sofa or bed.