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Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School
September 21, 2012 - February 20, 2013
Lake Maggiore, Italy
Title
Lake Maggiore, Italy
Date
1858
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 17 3/4 x 30 in. ( 45.1 x 76.2 cm )Frame: 28 1/4 x 40 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. ( 71.8 x 102.2 x 10.8 cm )
Credit Line
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, on permanent loan from the New York Public Library
Object Number
S-193
Bibliography
"Fine Arts," The New York Times, Mar. 12, 1871, p. 3.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1881, p. 19.
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr., Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), Austin: University of Texas Art Museum, 1970, pp. 8-9, 11-19.
Weiss, Ila, Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), New York: Garland Publishing, 1977, pp. 70, 165-8.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 64-5.
Weiss, Ila, Poetic Landscapes: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark: University of Delaware Press, c. 1987, p. 84.
Gifford, Sanford R., Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, pp. 198-200
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
