Autumn, a Wood Path
1876
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
American Painting and Sculpture
Autumn, a Wood Path, 1876. Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880). Oil on canvas; unframed: 38 x 31.8 cm (14 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1922.220 Gifford created several paintings depicting forest interiors, including this intimately scaled canvas set amid full autumnal blaze. The dense network of overarching trees casts shadows on the rugged ground below, restricting sunlight to haphazard patches. A solitary hiker is visible in the distance. The artist's namesake, Gifford Pinchot, was the first chief of the United States Forest Service.
- Maker/Artist
- Gifford, Sanford Robinson
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 38 x 31.8 cm (14 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower right: S R Gifford / 1876
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1922.220
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- Sanford R. Gifford, American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art, ????? Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Loan Exhibition (1878), no. 10 as Woods in Autumn by S.K. [sic?] Gifford.<br>Austin, TX, University Art Museum, Sanford R. Gifford (25 October - 15 December 1970); traveled to Albany, NY, Albany Institute of History and Art (1 January - 1 February 1971); cat no. ?, ill. p. 76.<br>Coshocton, OH, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (7 July - 1 November 1979), traveled to Lakewood, OH, The Kenneth C. Beck Center (17 September - 13 October 1980), p. 11.<br>Mansfield, OH, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape (8 March - 5 April 1981), cat. no. 6, p. 6.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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