Sanford Robinson Gifford
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Sanford Robinson Gifford was an American landscape painter and a leading member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists. A highly-regarded practitioner of Luminism, his work was noted
Study for a Self-Portrait (c.1848), Brooklyn Museum
Gifford in uniform (1861), Archives of American Art
The Wilderness (1860), Toledo Museum of Art
Twilight in the Catskills (1861), Yale University Art Gallery
Hudson River School
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The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement made by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. Early on, the paintings typically depic
Sanford Robinson Gifford
…Sanford Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American landscape painter and a leading member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists. A highly-regarded practitioner of Luminism, his work was noted for its emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects. Gifford was born in…
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton) (1836), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas Cole, A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning, 1844, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara Falls, 1857, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.