Object number1864.1.33

Lago Maggiore

Date1854

Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823-1880)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: 12 3/4 x 16 7/8 x 3 1/4 in. (32.39 x 42.86 x 8.26 cm)
Unframed: 5 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (14.61 x 26.04 cm)

Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Painting

SignedSigned and dated (LR): S R Gifford 54 (?)

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 198, fig. 130; All Seasons and Every Light, (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 1983), p. 56, repr.; America and the Grand Tour: Sanford Robinson Gifford at Home and Abroad, (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 1991) Phagan, Patricia, Past Time: Geology in European and American Art, (London: D Giles Limited, 2018) p.86-87. repr. p.87, fig. 29. ProvenanceCollections: Elias Magoon

Vassar Exhibitions

America and the Grand Tour: Sanford Robinson Gifford at Home and Abroad

Past Time: Geology in European and American Art

Exhibition HistoryDallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, "The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880," June 21- September 20, 1998.

Poughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "America and the Grand Tour: Sanford Robinson Gifford at Home and Abroad," April 17 - June 9, 1991.

Poughkeepsie, NY, Vassar College Art Gallery, "All Seasons and Every Light" 14 Oct. - 16 Dec. 1983

Lincoln, MA, DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, "All Seasons and Every Light" 5 Feb. - 25 March, 1984.

West Palm Beach, FL, Norton Museum of Art, "All Seasons and Every Light" 25 March - 1 July 1984.

Evanston, IL, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, "All Seasons and Every Light" 16 Nov. 1984 - 13 Jan. 1985.

Poughkeepsie, NY, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection" 5 Oct. - 20 Dec. 2000. Cat. no.21, repr. p.6

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Past Time: Geology in European and American Art," September 21 - December 9, 2018. Cat. no. 29, repr.

Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, "Past Time: Geology in European and American Art," February 16 - May 12, 2019. Cat. no. 29, repr.

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