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On the occasion of its 50th Anniversary, Krannert Art Museum celebrates the return of nineteenth century American artist George Inness’s Evening Landscape, a fragment from a monumental canvas entitled The New Jerusalem, after a miraculous conservation treatment at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. This focus exhibition reunites surviving portions of The New Jerusalem, which was damaged in a roof collapse while on display at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1880. The artist recovered the canvas from the rubble and cut it into at least three paintings now divided between Baltimore and Urbana-Champaign. Building on recent scholarship by art historians Sally Promey, Michael Quick, and former University of Illinois professor Rachel DeLue, the story of the loss and salvage of this key work in the artist’s career introduces the visitor to the cultural context, inspirational sources, and spiritual color theory artfully encoded into Inness’s landscapes.