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A Home in the Wilderness
About the Artwork
Gifford’s view of Mount Hayes in New Hampshire records human intrusion into a remote landscape. On the left riverbank a log cabin stands amid a recently cleared patch of land with several tree stumps, while figures in its doorway greet a man who has arrived with a canoe of supplies.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: SR Gifford. 1866.
Provenance
1970-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Late 1960s-1970: (Sloan & Roman, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) c.1960-late1960s: (The Terry DeLapp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, sold to Sloan & Roman)1 Until c. 1960: (T. Gilbert Brouillette [1906-1970], Staten Island, NY, sold to the Terry DeLapp Gallery) 1 By 1880: James M. Hartshorne [d. 1887?], New York, NY? By 1867: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY) 1
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 7, 2003-February 8, 2004); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (March 6-May 16, 2004); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (June 27-September 26, 2004).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
- Date
- 1866
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 114.9 x 173.7 x 16.5 cm (45 1/4 x 68 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.); Unframed: 76.8 x 135.7 cm (30 1/4 x 53 7/16 in.); Former: 96 x 154.5 x 9 cm (37 13/16 x 60 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange
- Accession no.
- 1970.162
More by Sanford Robinson Gifford in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009228
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