The Home of the Heron | George Inness | 1893 19th Century The dramatic lighting and staged

The dramatic lighting and staged symbolism reflect Mortensen’s distinctive pictorial style

while the owl atop her helmet identifies her as Athena

Warm light spilling from the windows contrasts with the cool night tones

From this point on he moved away from narrative subjects to primarily scenes of the sea in all its majestic force

The Home of the Heron | George Inness | 1893 19th Century The dramatic lighting and stagedGeorge Inness (May 1, 1825 August 3, 1894) was a prominent American landscape painter. One of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced, in turn, by the Old Masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found vivid expression in the work of Inness's maturity (18791894). Inness as one of America's greatest artists. Often called