OIL PAINTING: October, 1886
George Inness had a major influence on the California Tonalists. Inness, whose earlier mid-nineteenth-century landscapes celebrated the grandeur of nature's vistas with the descriptive realism of the Hudson River school of painters, found a sympathetic connection with the Barbizon artists that resulted in a change of style for his late oil paintings, painted from about I884 until his death, ten years later.One such example is October.