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1823 Greenfield, New York - 1880 New York City. Known for: Landscape, marine, and portrait painting-luminism.
Known for realistic, refined depictions of 19th-century American landscapes, Sanford Gifford used light as a technique to convey emotions in a way that made him one of the country's leading... Read full biography
Known for realistic, refined depictions of 19th-century American landscapes, Sanford Gifford used light as a technique to convey emotions in a way that made him one of the country's leading luminists. His mature style was a balancing of exacting detail of forms with a sense of atmosphere that often... Read full biography
Known for realistic, refined depictions of 19th-century American landscapes, Sanford Gifford used light as a technique to convey emotions in a way that made him one of the country's leading luminists. His mature style was a balancing of exacting detail of forms with a sense of atmosphere that often sacrificed topographic details. He finished his canvases by using multiple layers of translucent varnish. Early in his career, he was a portraitist, but in the summer of 1846, a trip to the Berkshire... Read full biography
Known for realistic, refined depictions of 19th-century American landscapes, Sanford Gifford used light as a technique to convey emotions in a way that made him one of the country's leading luminists. His mature style was a balancing of exacting detail of forms with a sense of atmosphere that often sacrificed topographic details. He finished his canvases by using multiple layers of translucent varnish. Early in his career, he was a portraitist, but in the summer of 1846, a trip to the Berkshire Hills and Catskill Mountains combined with his admiration for the painting of Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole inspired him to return to the freedom of landscape work. Gifford, like many of his peers, understood the spiritual inspiration... Read full biography
Known for realistic, refined depictions of 19th-century American landscapes, Sanford Gifford used light as a technique to convey emotions in a way that made him one of the country's leading luminists. His mature style was a balancing of exacting detail of forms with a sense of atmosphere that often sacrificed topographic details. He finished his canvases by using multiple layers of translucent varnish. Early in his career, he was a portraitist, but in the summer of 1846, a trip to the Berkshire Hills and Catskill Mountains combined with his admiration for the painting of Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole inspired him to return to the freedom of landscape work. Gifford, like many of his peers, understood the spiritual inspiration viewers found in the dramatic vistas of landscape, but he was not as committed to these theories as many of them. How... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Colored Pencil
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Hudson River School
- •Hudson River School Style of Painting
- •Luminous, Luminism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Beach Scenes, Bathers, Swimming Genre
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Adirondack Mountains
- •Alaska Before 1940
- •Barbizon, France
- •Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Gloucester, Rockport, North Shore
- •Catskill Mountains, New York
- •Colorado Before 1900
- •Colorado Rocky Mountains
- •Europe
- •Hayden Expedition Artist
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Lake George, New York
- •Long Island, New York
- •Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
- •Missouri River Valley Before 1900
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Pacific Northwest Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Rocky Mountain School of Painting
- •Venice, Italy
- •Virginia Before 1900
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
- •American Art Union
- •Artists Fund Society
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Daniel J Terra Collection
- •Gerald Peters Collection
- •Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr. Collection
- •Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
- •Warner Collection
Added Description
- •Civil War Artist and/or Photographer
- •Expedition Artist of Drawings, Paintings, and/or Photographs
- •Marine Before 1900
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Tenth Street Studio Building Resident, New York
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Art Union-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts