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| Sanford Robinson Gifford
American 1823 -1880
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| Born: |
Greenfield, Saratoga County New York
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| Died: |
New York New York
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| Active: |
Hudson New York until 1855
White Mountains New Hampshire 1853-1854, 1865-1866
Europe 1855-1857, 1859, 1868-1870
Rocky Mountains Colorado 1870
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| Addresses: |
New York New York
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| Studied: |
Brown University 1842-1844
Europe c.1855-1858
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| Instructors: |
John Rubens Smith NYC, c. 1845
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| Exhibited: |
National Academy of Design 1847-1860, 1861-1880
Brooklyn Art Association 1861-1880
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1880
American Art Union
Brooklyn Art Association
Washington State Historical Society, 1963 ("Site o
Regional Painters of Puget Sound 1870-1920
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, WA 1986
Metropolitan Museum of Art (memorial exhibition, c. 1880)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| Examples of Work: |
Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
New York Historical Society, New York
Newark Museum, New Jersey
The Toledo Museum of Art
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| Specialty: |
Painter
Instructor
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| Style/School: |
White Mountains
Hudson River School
Luminism
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| Subjects Known For: |
Landscapes
Portraits
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| Memberships: |
National Academy of Design ANA 1850; NA 1854
Union League Club
Century Association 1859
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| BIOGRAPHY: |
Sanford Robinson Gifford, born in 1823, studied at Brown University with John Rubens form 1842-44. He was trained in the Hudson River School style. Gifford began as a portraits but turned to landscapes after 1843 when he went ...
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America's most illustrious luminist painter, Sanford Robinson Gifford introduced a full-fledged love for light as a boundless and form-dissolving force. Gifford imbued his paintings with a transparent, intangible sense of atmo...
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