The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation

The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation

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Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago

Sanford Robinson Gifford

Mrs. Sanford Robinson Gifford (Mary Cecelia Gifford)

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Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago

Sanford Robinson Gifford

1823 - 1880

Mrs. Sanford Robinson Gifford (Mary Cecelia Gifford)


oil on paper mounted on canvas

8 1/4 by 7 1/4 in.

20.9 by 18.4 cm.

Executed in 1878.


We are grateful to Dr. Ila Weiss, the leading Sanford Robinson Gifford scholar, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Private Collection (acquired by descent directly from the artist in 1878)

[with] Alexander Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 1986 by the present owner 

Ila Weiss, The Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, 1987, no. 10, p. 309, illustrated

The Art Institute of Chicago, letter from Milo Naeve to Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson, as referenced in the curatorial object file

New York, Alexander Gallery, Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1986, no. 42, illustrated