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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.162.28
People
Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
Title
Compositional Studies of South Bay and Mount Merino; verso: Two Small Landscapes with Figures
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Partial Landscape; verso: Two Small Landscapes with Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1864
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/146865

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper
Dimensions
8 x 12.6 cm (3 1/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: center of page, graphite, in artist's hand: Water blue as mountain shadow / wheel tracks & bridge lighter than road / Finer light willows warm green / gr stones on edge of road

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent through artist's family, 1880; Alice Carter Gifford, Cambridge, MA; bequeathed to her son Sanford Gifford, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sanford Gifford
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.162.28
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The small landscapes on the verso are vertically oriented.

Publication History

  • Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), p. 101; verso repr. in b/w, p. 243
  • Kevin J. Avery and Franklin Kelly, ed., Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York; New Haven and London, 2003), p. 163, p.162 repr. fig. 105

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