Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Sudden Storm, Lake George (Coming Rain, Lake George), c. 1877
oil on canvas
Private collection
A major retrospective of the innovative paintings by 19th-century American landscape painter Sanford R. Gifford (1823-1880), who is known as a master of light and atmospheric detail, was presented in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art from June 27 through September 26, 2004. The first major exhibition of Gifford's work in more than 30 years features 72 paintings that illustrate the artist's travels in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 7, 2003, to February 8, 2004, and at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, from March 6 to May 16, 2004.
Three Important Gifford Paintings Exclusive to Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art was the only venue in which three important Gifford paintings can be seen as part of the traveling exhibition Hudson River School Visions: The Landscape of Sanford R. Gifford. Works exclusive to the exhibition in Washington, D.C., include a dramatic pair of canvases entitled
Morning in the Adirondacks and
Sunset in the Shawangunk Mountains (both 1854),
from the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art, on loan from the Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and View from South Mountain in the Catskills (1873), on loan from St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Many landscape painters working in America in the 1850s created paired landscapes, both real and imaginary. Over the course of his career, American painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848) created several pendants, the most familiar being The Departure and The Return (1837) and Past and Present (1838). The National Academy audience of 1854 would have recognized Gifford's homage to Cole in Morning in the Adirondacks and Sunset in the Shawangunk Mountains, both to Cole's use of paired pictures to establish narrative possibilities, and to his fondness for the mountain scenery of the Hudson River Valley. Although judged "slightly monotonous in color" by one critic, Gifford's pendants must have been well received by his fellow artists, for he was elected a full member of the National Academy that year.
View from South Mountain in the Catskills (1873) appears to reprise a now lost major work that the artist exhibited at the National Academy in 1864. In the Civil War years, Gifford painted the major sites in the vicinity of the Catskill Mountain House, among them the view from South Mountain. Gifford created numerous drawings and oil sketches of the vista before and after 1864; the painting from the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum was exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association in 1873.
The Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art contains the significant Warner Collection of the Gulf States Paper Corporation. It showcases 18th-, 19th-, and 20th- century American paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts collected by Jack Warner, who served as chairman and CEO of the Tuscaloosa-based paper company for more than 40 years. The collection includes moer than 500 works by leading artists such as Paul Revere, Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Alfred Jacob Miller, William Sydney Mount, Duncan Phyfe, Hiram Powers, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, George Luks, Robert Henri, Andrew Wyeth, and Edward Hopper, among many others. For information e-mail info@warnermuseum.org, or visit www.warnermuseum.org.
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum is a private, nonprofit public library and art gallery located in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The art gallery, added to the library in 1873, is now the oldest art gallery still in its original form in the United States. The major part of the gallery's collection is devoted to American and European artists from the late 18th- to the mid-19th century, with strong representation by artists of the Hudson River School such as Asher B. Durand, Jasper Cropsey, Gifford, James and William Hart, Samuel Colman, and Worthington Whittredge. Dominating the gallery from its inception has been the magnificent canvas of the Domes of the Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt (1867). For more information, visit www.stjathenaeum.org.
The Exhibition
Organized chronologically, with groupings of related works, the exhibition includes many of Gifford's "chief pictures." To give insight into the artist's remarkable creativity, the exhibition also includes a selection of his mid-size canvases, as well as smaller, cabinet-size sketches, studies, and reduced versions of major paintings. Some of the mid-size paintings, such as The Shawangunk Mountains (1864), were chosen because of their relationship to larger works that remain unlocated, while others offer clues to Gifford's process of developing the major pictures.
Major works in the exhibition include Lake Nemi (1856-1857), the first important painting in which the artist employed what became his trademark--the setting sun as a radiant focal point, its light a tonal unifier of his compositions. Exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1858, the painting helped establish Gifford as one of the premier representatives of painters who would eventually be known as the Hudson River School.
The artist's fascination with the transfiguring effects of light on the natural landscape is apparent in works such as
A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove) (1862) in which the radiant afternoon sun hovers over an idyllic mountain valley. The work was presented in the exhibition with several related oil sketches.
Gifford's aesthetic of light and atmosphere is demonstrated in his treatment of American panoramic subjects, such as Mansfield Mountain (1859), The Wilderness (1860), and The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine (1864-1865), the last notable for its inclusion of an artist (most likely Gifford) in the scene. The exhibition also includes a number of paintings inspired by the artist's Civil War experiences, such as the melancholy landscape, Hunter Mountain, Twilight (1866).
Nearly a quarter of the exhibition is devoted to works inspired by Gifford's travels abroad, including Siout, Egypt (1874),
Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore (1871),
and The Ruins of the Parthenon (1880).
About the Artist
Born and raised in the center of the Hudson River Valley, Sanford Gifford came from a family that supported and encouraged his artistic leanings, and whose prosperity meant he could pursue painting without financial worries. Gifford began training in New York City to be a portrait painter, but--inspired by the work of the American landscapist Thomas Cole--turned to landscape painting. Gifford spent the summer of 1846 touring and sketching in the Catskill and Berkshire mountains. By 1847, he had begun to show his work at the American Art-Union and the National Academy of Design in New York, where he was elected an associate in 1850 and an academician in 1854.
In 1855, Gifford traveled to Europe, where he spent two-and-a-half years visiting the great repositories of art and sketching scenery in England, Scotland, France, the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In England, he admired the color and light in the paintings of J.M.W. Turner, and discussed his work with the critic John Ruskin. Gifford was also impressed by the work of the French landscape painters of the Barbizon school, but wrote in his journal of the dangers of surrendering to a particular method or school of painting, lest they "usurp the place of Nature."
When Gifford returned to the United States in 1857, he took up quarters in the new Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City but left it nearly every summer to sketch in the countryside. Favorite settings in this period were the Catskills, the Adirondacks, the Green Mountains in Vermont, the White Mountains in New Hampshire, and various locales in Maine and Nova Scotia.
During the early years of the Civil War, Gifford served in New York's renowned Seventh Regiment. In 1868 Gifford went abroad for a second and last time, spending more than a year traveling in Europe and the Middle East. Along with notable artists and civic leaders of the day, he was a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870. After his death in 1880, he was honored with the Metropolitan's first monographic retrospective and a memorial catalogue of his known pictures.
Curators and Catalogue
The exhibition was organized by Franklin Kelly, senior curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Kevin J. Avery, associate curator, with the assistance of Claire A. Conway, research assistant, department of American paintings and sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The exhibition was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, which features essays by the exhibition's co-curators Kevin Avery and Franklin Kelly, and by Eleanor Jones Harvey, Luce Center Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Heidi Applegate, doctoral candidate, Columbia University. Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press, the catalogue has 200 pp., 148 black & white and 73 color illustrations.
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Paintings included in exhibition:
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Morning in the Adirondacks, 1854
oil on canvas
103.8 x 91.4 cm (40 7/8 x 36)
Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, on loan from The Warner Collection of Gulf
States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sunset in the Shawangunk Mountains, 1854
oil on canvas
103.8 x 91.4 cm (40 7/8 x 36)
Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, on loan from The Warner Collection of Gulf
States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Launt Thompson
Sanford R. Gifford, 1871
bronze
57.8 x 31.8 x 19.1 cm (22 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 7 1/2)
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Richard Butler and her daughters, in
memory of Richard Butler, 1902 (02.11.1)
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Solitude, 1848
oil on canvas
55.9 x 75.6 cm (22 x 29 3/4); framed: 71.1 x 90.8 cm (28 x 35 3/4)
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
001
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Scene in the Catskills, 1850
oil on canvas
61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20)
Collection of Jack Hollihan and Mary Ann Apicella
002
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sunset in the Wilderness with Approaching Rain, c. 1852-1853
oil on canvas
18.4 x 28.6 cm (7 1/4 x 11 1/4); framed: 36.8 x 47 cm (14 1/2 x 18 1/2)
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York
003
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Study for Windsor Castle, c. 1855
oil on canvas
16.2 x 24.5 cm (6 3/8 x 9 5/8); framed: 32.1 x 40 cm (12 5/8 x 15 3/4)
Collection Edward T. Wilson, Fund for Fine Arts, Bethesda, Maryland
004
A Sketch of Derwentwater, 1855
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
17.8 x 25.4 cm (7 x 10); approx.: 41.9 x 50.8 cm (16 1/2 x 20)
Collection Robert S. Peiser, Jr. and Dr. Peter K. Zucker, Ashburn, Virginia
005
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Lake Nemi, 1856-1857
oil on canvas
100.7 x 153.4 cm (39 5/8 x 60 3/8)
Toledo Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from The Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in
memory of her father, Maurice A. Scott
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Mansfield Mountain, 1859
oil on canvas
76.2 x 152.4 cm (30 x 60)
Manoogian Collection
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Sketch of Mansfield Mountain, 1858
oil on canvas
17.8 x 35.6 cm (7 x 14); framed: 45.7 x 62.6 cm (18 x 24 5/8)
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts
009
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Mount Mansfield, 1859
oil on canvas
26.7 x 50.8 cm (10 1/2 x 20); framed: 48.3 x 72.7 cm (19 x 28 5/8)
National Academy of Design, New York. Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
010
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Early October in the White Mountains, 1860
oil on canvas
35.9 x 61 cm (14 1/8 x 24); framed: 61.8 x 87 cm (24 5/16 x 34 1/4)
Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis. Bequest of Charles Parsons, 1905
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
The Wilderness, 1860
oil on canvas
76.2 x 138 cm (30 x 54 5/16)
Toledo Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from The Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in
memory of her father, Maurice A. Scott
012
Sanford Robinson Gifford
The Wilderness, 1861
oil on canvas
30.5 x 55.9 cm (12 x 22); framed: 53.3 x 77.5 cm (21 x 30 1/2)
Collection Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kay
013
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Lake Twilight, 1861
oil on canvas
39.4 x 69.9 cm (15 1/2 x 27 1/2); 62.2 x 92.7 cm (24 1/2 x 36 1/2)
Private collection
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sunset, 1863
oil on canvas
24.1 x 39.4 cm (9 1/2 x 15 1/2)
Collection Erving and Joyce Wolf
015
Sanford Robinson Gifford
La Marina Grande, Capri, 1861
oil on canvas
31.8 x 57.2 cm (12 1/2 x 22 1/2); framed: 52.1 x 77.5 cm (20 1/2 x 30 1/2)
Lorenzo State Historic Site, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic
Preservation, Cazenovia, New York
016
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Near Palermo, 1874
oil on canvas
40 x 75 cm (15 3/4 x 29 1/2)
Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
017
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Sketch on the Huntington River, Vermont, c. 1861
oil on canvas, mounted on wood
37.8 x 27.9 cm (14 7/8 x 11)
Collection Andrew and Denise Saul, Katonah, New York
018
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills, c. 1861
oil on canvas
17.2 x 24.1 cm (6 3/4 x 9 1/2); framed: 40.6 x 47.6 cm (16 x 18 3/4)
The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field (1988.217)
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
In the Catskills (A Catskill Study), 1861
oil on canvas
36.2 x 61 cm (14 1/4 x 24); framed: 61 x 86.4 x 10.2 cm (24 x 34 x 4)
Private collection
020
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove), 1862
oil on canvas
121.9 x 101.3 cm (48 x 39 7/8); framed: 157.5 x 139.1 x 12.1 cm (62 x 54 3/4 x 4 3/4)
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection
of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914 (15.30.62)
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Sketch of Kauterskill Clove, 1861
oil on canvas
33.7 x 28.6 cm (13 1/4 x 11 1/4)
Collection Family of the Artist
022
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Kauterskill Clove, in the Catskills, 1862
oil on canvas
24.3 x 21.6 cm (9 9/16 x 8 1/2)
Peter and Juliana Terian Collection of American Art
023
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Kauterskill Clove, in the Catskills, 1862
oil on canvas
32.7 x 28.1 cm (12 7/8 x 11 1/16)
Collection Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr.
024
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Twilight Park (Kauterskill Clove, from Haines Falls), c. 1860-1861
oil on canvas
22.2 x 36.5 cm (8 3/4 x 14 3/8); framed: 47.6 x 61.6 cm (18 3/4 x 24 1/4)
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC
025
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Torre dei Schiavi--Roman Campagna, c. 1857-1862
oil on canvas
21.6 x 40 cm (8 1/2 x 15 3/4)
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire. Bequest of Henry Melville Fuller
026
Sanford Robinson Gifford
The Catskill Mountain House, 1862
oil on canvas
23.7 x 47 cm (9 5/16 x 18 1/2); framed: 45.7 x 69.2 x 10.2 cm (18 x 27 1/4 x 4)
Private collection
027
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Winter Twilight, 1862
oil on canvas
39.4 x 76.4 cm (15 1/2 x 30 1/16); framed: 49.9 x 90.5 cm (19 5/8 x 35 5/8)
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington. Morton and Marie Bradley Memorial Collection
028
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Coming Storm, c. 1863/1880
oil on canvas
71.1 x 106.7 cm (28 x 42); 95.9 x 139.7 cm (37 3/4 x 55)
Private collection, on loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art
029
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Coming Storm on Lake George, c. 1863
oil on canvas
25.4 x 45.4 cm (10 x 17 7/8)
Private collection
030
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Sudden Storm, Lake George (Coming Rain, Lake George), c. 1877
oil on canvas
45.7 x 79.4 cm (18 x 31 1/4); framed: 74.9 x 109.2 cm (29 1/2 x 43)
Private collection
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Sunrise on Lake George, 1877-1879
oil on canvas
41.3 x 76.8 cm (16 1/4 x 30 1/4); framed: 74.9 x 109.2 cm (29 1/2 x 43)
Private collection
032
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Lago di Garda, Italy, 1863
oil on canvas
27 x 42.6 cm (10 5/8 x 16 3/4); framed: 49.5 x 65.1 cm (19 1/2 x 25 5/8)
Collection Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr.
033
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Camp of the Seventh Regiment, near Frederick, Maryland, in July 1863, 1864
oil on canvas
45.7 x 76.2 cm (18 x 30)
Seventh Regiment Fund, New York
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
South Bay, on the Hudson, near Hudson, New York, 1864
oil on canvas
31.1 x 64.8 cm (12 1/4 x 25 1/2); framed, approx.: 55.9 x 88.9 cm (22 x 35)
Private collection, courtesy of Garzoli Gallery, San Rafael, California
035
Sanford Robinson Gifford
The Shawangunk Mountains, 1864
oil on canvas
22.9 x 40.6 cm (9 x 16)
Collection Cheryl and Blair Effron
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Twilight in the Adirondacks, 1864
oil on canvas
26.7 x 47 cm (10 1/2 x 18 1/2)
Thomas Colville Fine Art, LLC, New Haven
037
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Twilight in the Adirondacks, c. 1864
oil on canvas
27.9 x 47 cm (11 x 18 1/2); framed: 48.3 x 67.3 cm (19 x 26 1/2)
Private collection
038
Sanford Robinson Gifford
The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine, 1864-1865
oil on canvas
27.9 x 48.3 cm (11 x 19); framed: 57.2 x 77.5 cm (22 1/2 x 30 1/2)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift (Partial and Promised) of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz,
Jr., in honor of John Wilmerding
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Home in the Wilderness, 1866
oil on canvas
76.8 x 135.7 cm (30 1/4 x 53 7/16); framed: 96 x 154.5 x 9 cm (37 13/16 x 60 13/16 x 3
9/16)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation;
Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange (1970.162)
040
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866
oil on canvas
77.8 x 137.5 cm (30 5/8 x 54 1/8); framed: 97.8 x 158 cm (38 1/2 x 62 3/16)
Terra Foundation for the Arts, Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago
041
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Morning on the Hudson, Haverstraw Bay, 1866
oil on canvas
36.2 x 76.8 cm (14 1/4 x 30 1/4); framed: 66 x 105.7 cm (26 x 41 5/8)
Terra Foundation for the Arts, Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago
042
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Hook Mountain on the Hudson River, 1867
oil on canvas
30.5 x 22.9 cm (12 x 9); framed: 53.3 x 49.5 cm (21 x 19 1/2)
Private collection
043
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Passing Storm in the Adirondacks, 1866
oil on canvas
95.9 x 137.2 cm (37 3/4 x 54); framed: 132.1 x 175.3 cm (52 x 69)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
044
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Long Branch Beach, 1867
oil on canvas
22.9 x 49.5 cm (9 x 19 1/2); framed: 44.1 x 70.8 cm (17 3/8 x 27 7/8)
Collection Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr.
045
Sanford Robinson Gifford
An Indian Summer's Day on the Hudson--Tappan Zee, 1868
oil on canvas
35.6 x 76.2 cm (14 x 30)
Private collection, Washington, DC
046
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Assouan, Egypt, A Sketch, 1869
oil on canvas
14.9 x 33.7 cm (5 7/8 x 13 1/4); framed: 35.2 x 54 cm (13 7/8 x 21 1/4)
Collection Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr.
047
Sanford Robinson Gifford
On the Nile, 1871
oil on canvas
43.2 x 78.7 cm (17 x 31)
Private collection
048
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Siout, Egypt, 1874
oil on canvas
53.3 x 101.6 cm (21 x 40); framed: 91.1 x 139.7 x 13.3 cm (35 7/8 x 55 x 5 1/4)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, New Century Fund, Gift of Joan and David Maxwell
(1999.7.1)
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
View from South Mountain in the Catskills, 1873
oil on canvas
53.3 x 101.6 cm (21 x 40); framed: 137.2 x 88.9 x 12.7 cm (54 x 35 x 5)
Collection of the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Valley of the Chug Water, Wyoming Territory, 1870
oil on canvas
19.7 x 32.7 cm (7 3/4 x 12 7/8)
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
050
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore, 1871
oil on canvas
51.4 x 91.4 cm (20 1/4 x 36); framed: 82.5 x 124 x 15 cm (32 1/2 x 48 13/16 x 5 7/8)
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Colonel Charles A. Fowler, 1921 (21.115.1)
051
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Kauterskill Falls, 1871
oil on canvas
37.5 x 31.8 cm (14 3/4 x 12 1/2); framed: 64.8 x 59.1 x 7 cm (25 1/2 x 23 1/4 x 2 3/4)
The Detroit Institute of Arts. Gift of Katherine French Rockwell
052
Sanford Robinson Gifford
An October Afternoon, 1871
oil on canvas
34.3 x 61 cm (13 1/2 x 24)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Henry H. and ZoÎ Oliver Sherman Fund, 1988
053
Study for The View from South Mountain, in the Catskills, 1873
oil on canvas
21.9 x 39.4 cm (8 5/8 x 15 1/2); framed: 55.3 x 73.7 cm (21 3/4 x 29)
Private collection
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
The View from South Mountain in the Catskills, a Sketch, 1865
oil on canvas
25.4 x 47.6 cm (10 x 18 3/4)
Private collection
055
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Venetian Sails, a Study, 1873
oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
34 x 61 cm (13 3/8 x 24); framed: 49.9 x 77.8 cm (19 5/8 x 30 5/8)
Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis. Bequest of Charles Parsons, 1905
056
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Mount Rainier, Bay of Tacoma--Puget Sound, 1875
oil on canvas
53.3 x 102.9 cm (21 x 40 1/2); framed: 85.7 x 133.4 cm (33 3/4 x 52 1/2)
Seattle Art Museum. Partial and promised gift of an anonymous donor and 45% fractional
interest gift, by exchange, of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brechemin, Max R. Schweitzer, Hickman
Price, Jr., in memory of Hickman Price, Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Mr. a
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Mount Rainier, Washington Territory, 1874
oil on canvas
20.3 x 39.4 cm (8 x 15 1/2); framed, ca.: 45.7 x 66 cm (18 x 26)
Private collection
058
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Leander's Tower on the Bosphorus, 1875
oil on canvas
58.4 x 106.7 cm (23 x 42)
Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Bequest of Mrs. William
Hayes Fogg
059
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Constantinople, from the Golden Horn, 1880
oil on canvas
22.5 x 40.6 cm (8 7/8 x 16); framed: 54.6 x 72.4 x 7 cm (21 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 2 3/4)
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, New York, PC 47
060
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Sketch of Clay Bluffs on No Man's Land, 1877
oil on canvas
23.5 x 40.6 cm (9 1/4 x 16); framed: 48.9 x 66.7 cm (19 1/4 x 26 1/4)
Private collection
061
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sunset on the Shore of No Man's Land--Bass Fishing, 1878
oil on canvas
58.4 x 106.7 cm (23 x 42); 83.8 x 132.1 cm (33 x 52)
Collection Deedee and Barrie Wigmore, New York
062
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Fire Island Beach, 1878
oil on canvas
34.3 x 69.9 cm (13 1/2 x 27 1/2); framed: 69.2 x 104.8 cm (27 1/4 x 41 1/4)
Private collection
063
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Sunset, Bay of New York, 1878
oil on canvas
52.7 x 103.5 cm (20 3/4 x 40 3/4); 97.2 x 139.7 cm (38 1/4 x 55)
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
064
Sanford Robinson Gifford
The Marshes of the Hudson, 1878
oil on canvas
41.9 x 76.8 cm (16 1/2 x 30 1/4)
Private collection, Courtesy Thomas Colville Fine Art, LLC, New Haven
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
The Marshes of the Hudson, 1876
oil on artist's board
19.1 x 34.9 cm (7 1/2 x 13 3/4); framed: 25.4 x 41.3 cm (10 x 16 1/4)
Private collection
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Galleries of the Stelvio--Lake Como, 1878
oil on canvas
77.5 x 62.2 cm (30 1/2 x 24 1/2); framed: 120.7 x 104.1 x 10.2 cm (47 1/2 x 41 x 4)
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, New York, PC 48
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Mount Katahdin from Lake Millinocket, 1879
oil on composite board
11.4 x 21.6 cm (4 1/2 x 8 1/2); framed: 25.6 x 35.7 cm (10 1/16 x 14 1/16)
Private collection
068
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sunset Over the Palisades on the Hudson, 1879
oil on canvas
46 x 86.7 cm (18 1/8 x 34 1/8); framed: 62.2 x 103.5 cm (24 1/2 x 40 3/4)
Private collection
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
The Ruins of the Parthenon, 1880
oil on canvas
70.2 x 135.6 cm (27 5/8 x 53 3/8); framed: 110.5 x 174.3 cm (43 1/2 x 68 5/8)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Museum Purchase
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