after inness settled in montclair, new jersey in 1885, and particularly in the last decade of his life, this mystical component manifested in his art through a more abstracted handling of shapes, softened edges, and saturated color ("october", 1886, los angeles county museum of art), a profound and dramatic juxtaposition of sky and earth ("early autumn, montclair", 1888, montclair art museum), an emphasis on the intimate landscape view ("sunset in the woods", 1891, corcoran gallery of art), and an increasingly personal, spontaneous, and often violent handling of paint. it is this last quality in particular which distinguishes inness from those painters of like sympathies who are characterized as luminists.