Object number1978.3.6
Outlet of Round Lake, Hamilton County, New York
Date1851
Artist
Sanford Robinson Gifford
(American, 1823-1880)
CultureAmerican
MediumOil on paper mounted on board
DimensionsUnframed: 9 x 15 in. (22.86 x 38.1 cm)
Framed: 17 x 23 x 3 in. (43.18 x 58.42 x 7.62 cm)
Framed: 17 x 23 x 3 in. (43.18 x 58.42 x 7.62 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Robert Wilkinson in memory of Edith Wilkinson, class of 1889
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn reverse of mount, by unidentified hand, incised: Outlet of Round Lake / Hamilton Co. N.Y. 185[illegible]
BibliographyAmerica and the Grand Tour: Sanford Robinson Gifford. Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 1991;
de Vries, Nelleke. "Berglandschappen en vergenzichten: Kunstenaars van de Hudson River School en her Amerikaanse landschap," in Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Het internationale landschap: Schilderen in de buitenlucht in de negentiende eeuw, Netherlands: Rijksmuseum Twenthe, p. 61Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryAmerica and the Grand Tour: Sanford Robinson Gifford at Home and Abroad, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 17 - June 9, 1991;The International Landscape: Painting in the Open Air in the Nineteenth Century, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands, February 17 - June 9, 2024
DescriptionDepiction of a curving waterway amongst vibrant green grasses and plants with a line of tall trees along the horizon in the midground. The sky is a pale yellow-blue gradient and meets slightly hazy purple-blue mountains in the distance. A small figure at right rows a boat.
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