Higher Forms Of Truth: The Late Works Of George Inness

Higher Forms of Truth: The Late Works of George Inness Michael Quick, author of the recently published George Inness catalogue raisonné, shares his insight into Inness’s later paintings—those in which the artist sought to reach “higher forms of truth” through a style known to Inness and his contemporaries as “synthetic” painting, achieved through the willful elimination of needless detail.