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The Rigor of the Game, Kearsarge Hall, North Conway, New Hampshire, (painting). Artist:  Inness, George, 1825-1894, painter. Title:  The Rigor of the Game, Kearsarge Hall, North Conway, New Hampshire, (painting). Other Titles:  Croquet, Conway, New Hampshire, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1875-1885, or later. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  20 x 30 1/2 in. Inscription:  (Lower left:) G. Inness signed Description:  Landscape with a group of figures playing croquet on a lawn adjacent to the Kearsarge Hotel. Other figures walk on a plank walkway at right, back toward the train tracks. A train is in the background, beyond which is a mountain ridge. Subject:  Figure group Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Croquet Landscape -- New Hampshire -- North Conway Architecture -- Vehicle -- Train Architecture exterior -- Commercial -- Kearsarge Hotel Architecture exterior -- Commercial -- Hotel Landscape -- Mountain Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238 Accession Number: 80.189 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Donnellon, Cornelius E., New York, New York American Art Association, New York, New York Sale (Jan. 15, 1937), no. 42. Loring, R. C., Dr., American Art Association, New York, New York Sale (Feb. 3, 1938), no. 34. Julius Weitzner Galleries, New York, New York John Mitchell Galleries, New York, New York Ireland, Leroy, New York, New York Hotchkiss, Caroline Ryan, 1946. Gibson, Harvey Dow, Mrs., North Conway, New Hampshire by 1965. Gift of Atwood, Whitney B., Mrs., References:  Quick, Michael, "George Inness: a catalogue raisonne; volume two," Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007, no. 794. "American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 681. Ireland, Leroy, "The works of George Inness: an illustrated catalog raisonne," Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1965, no. 749. Illustration:  Quick, Michael, "George Inness: a catalogue raisonne; volume two," Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007, pg. 126. "American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 681. Ireland, Leroy, "The works of George Inness: an illustrated catalog raisonne," Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1965, p.185 Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 35681140   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 35681140 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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