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Haverstraw Bay
About the Artwork
Located about 40 miles north of New York City, Haverstraw Bay is the widest point on the Hudson River. During the 1860s, it was a prime area for shad fishing, and Gifford’s painting records this activity taking place amid a delicately luminous morning haze.
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: S.R. Gifford
Provenance
Theodore Weston (about 1867-68) [possibly]; -1965: (Vose Balleries, Boston, MA, sold to Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Vignos) 1965-2011: Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Vignos, Jr. Chagrin Falls, OH by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2011-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
- Date
- 1868
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 24.2 x 50.8 cm (9 1/2 x 20 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.
- Accession no.
- 2011.43
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-00009400
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