Storm King on the Hudson

Provenance

Private collection

Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York, New York, acquired from above

Exhibited

New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, For Spacious Skies: Hudson River School Paintings from the Henry and Sharon Martin Collection, June 10–September 25, 2005

Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, 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

Literature

Kevin Sharp, For Spacious Skies: Hudson River School Paintings from the Henry and Sharon Martin Collection (New Britain Museum of American Art: 2005), 52–55.

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, LLC, 2012), 52–53, no. 20.

Related Work 

A Coming Storm, 1863, retouched in 1880, oil on canvas, 28 x 42 inches; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

Note: Named by the American writer Nathaniel P. Willis (1806–1867), Storm King is a mountain on the western side of the Hudson River, recognized for its distinct rounded form. Sanford Robinson Gifford would have seen Storm King on his many trips from New York to his hometown of Hudson, as he often traveled by steamboat on the river. In Storm King on the Hudson, Gifford portrays the power of the distant storm with breaking waves in the foreground and menacing clouds overhead.