白日鸡和维吉尼亚风景Gray Day Goochland Virgnia_1884_乔治·英尼斯油画作品欣赏。
这项工作的吸引人之处，不仅在于他的健康，也在于他的自然风光。在这些旅行中，他创作了一些晚期最好的画作，其中包括《灰色的日子，古克兰》。他选择的地点有些偏僻，也不太受欢迎。古奇兰位于里士满以西，距离詹姆斯河大约一英里，不过是一个村庄，主要吸引人的地方是县法院和监狱。因尼斯只去了古奇兰一次，在那里呆了三个月。他为什么选择这个偏僻的地方仍然是个谜。然而，这次参观的时间是1884年1月到3月中旬，这可能反映出英尼斯希望避免他的作品在纽约美国艺术画廊(美国艺术画廊)的大型回顾展开幕时的忙乱和紧张。
英尼斯在南方的逗留与他职业生涯的最后阶段和他成熟风格的成就是一致的。他的绘画从19世纪80年代中期一直到他去世，其特点是通过广泛的绘画应用和微妙的色彩和色调效果来表现自然，表现自然的松散。在灰蒙蒙的日子里，古奇兰、珍珠般的灰色和熔融的粉色温暖了原本会是寒冷冬天的景象:一个大人和一个小孩穿过田野，走向一处农舍，农舍坐落在一簇稀疏的光秃秃的树木中。一方面，这幅画完美地捕捉到了弗吉尼亚冬天凉爽、柔和的光线和潮湿但寒冷的氛围。然而，与此同时，模糊的形式和深邃而矛盾的不确定的空间传达了一种空灵的感觉。
This work was drawn as much by concern for his health as for the natural attractions, Inness traveled frequently to the south, visiting Virginia in 1884. He made some of his finest late paintings on these trips, among them Gray Day, Goochland. The locations he chose were somewhat off the beaten path and not popular vacation spots. Goochland, west of Richmond and about a mile from the James River, was no more than a village whose chief attractions were the county courthouse and jail. Inness made only one visit to Goochland and stayed for three months. Why he chose this out-of-the way place is still a mystery. The timing of the visit, however, from January into mid March 1884, may reflect Inness's desire to avoid the fuss and strain of the opening of a large retrospective exhibition of his work at the American Art Galleries in New York.
Inness's southern sojourns coincided with the last phase of his career and his achievement of a mature style. His paintings from the mid 1880's until his death are characterized by an expressive, loose transcription of nature through broad paint application and subtle color and tonal effects. In Gray Day, Goochland, pearly grays and molten pinks warm what would otherwise be a bleak winter scene of an adult and child walking across a field toward a farmhouse nestled in a thin cluster of barren trees. On the one hand, the painting perfectly captures the cool, muted light and the damp but nippy atmosphere of a Virginia winter. Yet, at the same time, the blurred forms and deep, yet paradoxically indefinite space convey a sense of the ethereal.
