Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills by Sanford Robinson Gifford
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Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills

Sanford Robinson Gifford · c. 1861

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Estate of the artist. Alexander Gallery, New York, by 1986; sold to Marshall Field V and Jamee J. Field (1947–2020; born Jamee Beckwith Jacobs), Chicago, by 1988; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Alexander Gallery, <em>Sanford R. Gifford</em>, Mar. 20–Apr. 19, 1986, cat. 11, (ill.)
  • Dallas Museum of Art, <em>'That Earlier, Wilder Image': Sketches by American Landscape Painters, 1830–1880</em>, June 14–Sept. 13, 1998, cat.; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Oct. 11, 1998–Jan. 10, 1999; Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Feb. 6–May 9, 1999.
  • London, Tate Gallery, American Sublime, Feb. 20–May 19, 2002; Munich, Haus der Kunst, June 13–Sept. 1, 2002, Minneapolis, Institute of Fine Arts, Sept. 22–Nov. 17, 2002.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford</em>, Oct. 7, 2003–Feb. 8, 2004, cat.; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Mar. 4–May 16, 2004; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, June 27–Sept. 26, 2004.

Literature

Published references

  • John F. Weir, <em>A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A.</em>, (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1881), 21, cat. 191.
  • Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, no. 1 (2001): 40–59, fig. 3 (ill.).

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