On the Long Island Coast

by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880)
Oil on canvas
6¼ x 15 3/16 inches
Initialed lower center: SRG

Information

Provenance

The artist

Estate of above

Sale, Thomas E. Kirby & Co., New York, New York, April 28–April 29, 1881, from above

George F. McMurray, Glendale, California

Sale, Shannon’s, Greenwich, Connecticut, April 26, 2001, lot 89

Private collection, New York

Sale, Shannon’s, Greenwich, Connecticut, October 23, 2008, lot 84

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above

Private collection, New York, acquired from above, 2008

Exhibited

(Probably) A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1881 (as A Sketch on the Long Island Coast)

(Probably) The Estate of the Late Sanford R. Gifford, N.A., Thomas E. Kirby & Co., New York, New York, April 28–April 29, 1881 (as Hudson River Scenery)

American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: The George F. McMurray Collection, Pasadena Museum of California Art, California, November 30, 1960–January 4, 1961

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1823–1880, 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

Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, n.d.

Literature

(Probably) A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1881), 29, no. 358 (as A Sketch on the Long Island Coast).

(Probably) Catalogue Part II. of The Gifford Collection, Comprising Balance of the Valuable Paintings, Works of and Belonging to the Estate of the Late Sanford R. Gifford, N.A., April 28–April 29, 1881 (New York: Thomas E. Kirby & Co. Auctioneers, 1881), 21, no. 90 (as A Sketch on the Long Island Coast).

American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: The George F. McMurray Collection (Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Museum, 1960), 31, no. 39 (as Seascape, Long Island).

Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1800) (Austin, TX: University of Texas, 1970), 25–26, no. 28, 54.

Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1987), 358, no. 154.

Artist Biography

Prominent Luminist Hudson River School painter

By Amy Spencer

Defining the salient characteristics of the second-generation Hudson River School, Sanford R. Gifford’s luminist style effectively evoked both the subtle and dramatic effects epitomized by landscape painting in nineteenth-century America.

I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources


I. Biography

The second-generation Hudson River School painter Sanford Robinson Gifford was a master at depicting light and atmosphere in landscapes. As the only painter among his contemporaries to be born and grow up

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