Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s. The movement was eventually eclipsed by Impressionism and European modernism.
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, c. 1875; oil on panel; 60.3 × 46.4 cm
Albert Pinkham Ryder, Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens (1888 - 1891), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
George Inness, Summer Landscape, 1894
John H. Twachtman, The White Bridge, c. 1895, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
George Inness was an American landscape painter.
Tonalism
…use the term "tonal" to describe these works, as well as the lesser-known synonyms Quietism and Intimism. Two of the leading associated painters were George Inness and James McNeill Whistler. Australian tonalism emerged as an art movement in Melbourne during the 1910s when it was promoted as a method of 'scientific…
The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856, National Gallery of Art
Lake Albano, 1869, Phillips Collection