The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Mrs. Sanford Robinson Gifford (Mary Cecelia Gifford)
No reserve
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May 24, 06:15 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
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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