A Home in the Wilderness
1866
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
American Painting and Sculpture
A Home in the Wilderness, 1866. Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880). Oil on canvas; framed: 114.9 x 173.7 x 16.5 cm (45 1/4 x 68 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.); unframed: 76.8 x 135.7 cm (30 1/4 x 53 7/16 in.); former: 96 x 154.5 x 9 cm (37 13/16 x 60 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.). 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 Gifford’s view of Mount Hayes in New Hampshire records human intrusion into a remote landscape. On the left riverbank a log cabin stands amid a recently cleared patch of land with several tree stumps, while figures in its doorway greet a man who has arrived with a canoe of supplies. Gifford considered this painting to be one of his finest creations.
- Maker/Artist
- Gifford, Sanford Robinson
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 114.9 x 173.7 x 16.5 cm (45 1/4 x 68 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.); Unframed: 76.8 x 135.7 cm (30 1/4 x 53 7/16 in.); Former: 96 x 154.5 x 9 cm (37 13/16 x 60 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: SR Gifford. 1866.
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1970.162
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1970, Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, Paris, Exposition Universelle (1867) as Un Interieur dans le desert, no. 19; as belonging to M. Knoedler<br>New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gifford Memorial (1880-81), accompanying publication of Memorial Catalogue.<br>Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review, 1970 (7 February - 10 March 1971), no cat (see 1971 Bulletin).<br>Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, America in Art: Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years (6 June - 11 August 1991), p. 40, ill. p. 41<br>Metropolitan Musuem of Art (10/7/2003 - 2/8/2004); Amon Carter Museum (3/6/2004 - 5/16/2004); and National Gallery of Art (6/27/2004 - 9/26/2004): "Hudson River School: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford" exh. cat. no. 70, p.172-174.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 206 American Landscape
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