Lot Essay
A Study of Hunter Mountain at Twilight is one of two preparatory oil studies for the artist's celebrated Hunter Mountain, Twilight of 1866 in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois.
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A Study of Hunter Mountain at Twilight
Details
SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823-1880)
A Study of Hunter Mountain at Twilight
oil on canvas
7 x 11 1⁄2 in. (17.8 x 29.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1865.
A Study of Hunter Mountain at Twilight
oil on canvas
7 x 11 1⁄2 in. (17.8 x 29.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1865.
Provenance
The artist.
Thomas E. Kirby & Co., New York, 1881, lot 124.
(Possibly) Richard Butler, friend of the artist, acquired from the above.
Mrs. Robert Wilkinson, sister of the artist, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Private collection, by descent.
Leslie Hindman, Chicago, Illinois, 24 September 2012, lot 30, sold by the above.
Thomas Colville Fine Art, Inc., New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Thomas E. Kirby & Co., New York, 1881, lot 124.
(Possibly) Richard Butler, friend of the artist, acquired from the above.
Mrs. Robert Wilkinson, sister of the artist, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Private collection, by descent.
Leslie Hindman, Chicago, Illinois, 24 September 2012, lot 30, sold by the above.
Thomas Colville Fine Art, Inc., New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., 1881, p. 31, no. 406.
I. Weiss, Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1977, p. 244, fig. VII E8, illustrated.
I. Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, p. 260.
J.K. Howat, American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1987, pp. 229, 231.
I. Weiss, Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1977, p. 244, fig. VII E8, illustrated.
I. Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, p. 260.
J.K. Howat, American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1987, pp. 229, 231.
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A Study of Hunter Mountain at Twilight is one of two preparatory oil studies for the artist's celebrated Hunter Mountain, Twilight of 1866 in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois.