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Compositional study for A Sudden Storm, Lake George, from the Shawangunk Mountains, New York, Mount Katadin and Lake Millinocket, Maine Subjects Sketchbook
Compositional study for A Sudden Storm, Lake George, from the Shawangunk Mountains, New York, Mount Katadin and Lake Millinocket, Maine Subjects Sketchbook
Object number1938.14.5.5

Compositional study for A Sudden Storm, Lake George, from the Shawangunk Mountains, New York, Mount Katadin and Lake Millinocket, Maine Subjects Sketchbook

Date1873-1879
Artist (American, 1823-1880)
MediumGraphite on olive-brown wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (11.43 x 21.59 cm)
Credit LineGift of Miss Edith Wilkinson, class of 1889
On View
Not on view
Period19th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned and dated (in cover): S R Gifford 51 West 10th St 1873
InscribedInscribed (in cover): S R Gifford 51 West 10th St. New York
BibliographyAvery, Kevin J. and Franklin Kelly, Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2003), repr. p 154, fig. 97. Ila Weiss, "Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford." Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987. p. 312.
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