SOLD Storm King on the Hudson
by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880)6⅝ x 10 inches
Initialed lower right: SRG
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.
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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