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    Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills
    Sanford Robinson Gifford. Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills, c. 1861. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001208

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    Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills

    by Sanford Robinson Gifford

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist. Alexander Gallery, New York, by 1986; sold to Marshall Field V and Jamee J. Field (1947–2020; born Jamee Beckwith Jacobs), Chicago, by 1988; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Alexander Gallery, Sanford R. Gifford, Mar. 20–Apr. 19, 1986, cat. 11, (ill.) Dallas Museum of Art, 'That Earlier, Wilder Image': Sketches by American Landscape Painters, 1830–1880, June 14–Sept. 13, 1998, cat.; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Oct. 11, 1998–Jan. 10, 1999; Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Feb. 6–May 9, 1999. London, Tate Gallery, American Sublime, Feb. 20–May 19, 2002; Munich, Haus der Kunst, June 13–Sept. 1, 2002, Minneapolis, Institute of Fine Arts, Sept. 22–Nov. 17, 2002. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, Oct. 7, 2003–Feb. 8, 2004, cat.; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Mar. 4–May 16, 2004; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, June 27–Sept. 26, 2004.

    Publications

    John F. Weir, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1881), 21, cat. 191. Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 1 (2001): 40–59, fig. 3 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
    Date
    c. 1861
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    17.2 × 24.1 cm (6 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field
    Accession no.
    1988.217

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