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Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills
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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