The Home of the Heron

Jahr	1893
Technik	Oil on canvas
Abmessungen	76.2 × 114.3 cm
Typ	painting

One of Inness's finest late works, this atmospheric wetland scene dissolves into mist and reflected light. The lone heron in the rushes provides the only sharp detail in a canvas of exquisite tonal gradation, embodying the Tonalist belief in landscape as emotional and spiritual experience.