2001.162.29: Sketches of Men with Rowboat; verso: Shore Scene with Figures

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.162.29

People

Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)

Title

Sketches of Men with Rowboat; verso: Shore Scene with Figures

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

1864

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/147035

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: right edge, graphite, in artist's hand: yel / red & [brn?] / Blue
• inscription: verso, below image, graphite, in artist's hand: Upper edge of reflected sun stronger / white foam darkening green to crest of broken / wave. / Reflection of sky grow lighter & broader from / horizon to beach.

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

2001.162.29

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), verso repr. in b/w, p. 243

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