SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823-1880)
SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823-1880)
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Camping for the Night on Mansfield Mountain

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SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823-1880)
Camping for the Night on Mansfield Mountain
indistinctly signed 'SR Gifford' (lower left)
oil on canvas
10 ¼ x 16 ¾ in. (26 x 42.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1860s.
Provenance
The artist.
E. Pinchot, circa 1868.
Gifford Pinchot, by descent from the above.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1964.
The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, acquired from the above, 1967.
The Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan.
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008.
Literature
(Probably) Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., New York, 1881, no. 469.
I. Weiss, Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), PhD diss., Columbia University, New York, 1977, pp. 243-44, illustrated.
I. Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, pp. 208-09, 227, illustrated.
P.C.F. Mandel, Fair Wilderness: American Paintings in the Collection of the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, 1990, p. 137, no. 86.
Exhibited
Austin, Texas, University of Texas Art Museum; Albany, New York, The Albany Institute of History and Art; New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), October 25, 1970-February 27, 1971, pp. 27-28, 65, no. 41, illustrated (as Campfire Shelter).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art & Private Collections, June 15, 2009–May 30, 2010.
New York, Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, An Artist's Legacy and a Dealer's Admiration: Paintings by Sanford Robinson Gifford from Important American Collections, October 12-December 14, 2012, pp. 28-29, 148, pl. 8, illustrated.

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