Manchester, Massachusetts, 1864

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Mrs. Sanford R. Gifford, San Francisco, California
Sanford Gifford, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts, by descent from above
Private collection, by descent from above
Private collection, Maryland

Exhibited

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings in the West and East Galleries, October 1880–March 1881, no. 160 (as Manchester Beach, a study)

Sanford Robinson Gifford, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, October 25–December 13, 1970; Albany Institute of History & Art, New York, December 28, 1970–January 31, 1971; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, February 8–27, 1971

Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York, New York, An Artist’s Legacy and A Dealer’s Admiration: Paintings by Sanford Robinson Gifford from Important American Collections, October 12–December 14, 2012, no. 24 (as A Sketch of the Beach at Manchester, Massachusetts)

Literature

(Possibly) Loan Collection of Paintings in the West and East Galleries (New York: The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, New York, 1880), 11, no. 160 (as Manchester Beach, a study).

(Possibly) Catalogue of Valuable Oil Paintings, Works of the Famous Artist, Sanford R. Gifford, N. A. Deceased (New York: Thos E. Kirby and Co., 1881), 34, no. 80 (as Beach at Manchester, Mass).

(Possibly) John F. Weir, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1881), 29, no. 362 (as A Sketch of the Beach at Manchester, Mass).

Ila Weiss, “Sanford Robinson Gifford” (PhD diss., Columbia University, 1968), 268, pl. VII K 2 (as A Sketch of the Beach at Manchester, Mass).

Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1987), 101, 250–251 (as A Sketch of the Beach at Manchester, Massachusetts).

Kevin J. Avery and Donald J. Christensen, An Artist’s Legacy and A Dealer’s Admiration: Paintings by Sanford Robinson Gifford from Important American Collections (New York: Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, 2012), 60–61, no. 24 (as A Sketch of the Beach at Manchester, Massachusetts).

Note

In August and September 1864, Gifford spent time on the New Hampshire and Massachusetts coasts. The horizon serves as an important compositional line in Gifford’s coastal Massachusetts scenes of the mid-1860s.[1]

[1] Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1987), 249.