The Home of the Heron | George Inness | 1893 19th Century Warm light spilling from the

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

showing its spread wings

and a lone sphere—stand frozen in a silent

while the owl atop her helmet identifies her as Athena

The Home of the Heron | George Inness | 1893 19th Century Warm light spilling from theGeorge 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