Nature Sublime: Important Works from a Private American Collection
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sundown
signed S R Gifford and dated 1863 (lower right)
oil on canvas
9 ¼ by 15 ¼ in.
23.5 by 38.7 cm.
Executed in 1863.
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Details
signed S R Gifford and dated 1863 (lower right)
9 ¼ by 15 ¼ in.
23.5 by 38.7 cm.
Provenance
Charles S. Smith (acquired in 1867)
S. P. Avery (acquired from the above before 1881)
Vose Galleries, Boston
Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 April 1975, lot 34 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family, New York
Sotheby’s, New York, 19 April 2023, lot 47
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibition
(possibly) New York, Century Association, Gifford Memorial Meeting of the Century, 1880, no. 16
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1980, pl. 5, p. 15, illustrated in color; pp. 90 and 118; fig. 125, p. 119, illustrated (titled Sunset)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, 2003-04, no. 15, pp. 117; p. 119, illustrated in color (titled Sunset)
Literature
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ed., A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1881, no. 450, p. 5
Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, 1987, pl. 15, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 229 (titled Sunset)