Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
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Museums page for Robert Swain Gifford ((1840 - 1905)), known for Etching, landscape and marine painting, Orientalism. Showing 22 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1840 Nonamesset, Massachusetts - 1905 New York City. Known for: Etching, landscape and marine painting, Orientalism.
One of America's prominent landscape and marine painters as well as teachers in the late 19th century, Robert Swain Gifford worked primarily in New York City with travels to many other locations. He... Read full biography
One of America's prominent landscape and marine painters as well as teachers in the late 19th century, Robert Swain Gifford worked primarily in New York City with travels to many other locations. He was also one of the early artists into Alaska, going there in 1899 as a commissioned landscape... Read full biography
One of America's prominent landscape and marine painters as well as teachers in the late 19th century, Robert Swain Gifford worked primarily in New York City with travels to many other locations. He was also one of the early artists into Alaska, going there in 1899 as a commissioned landscape painter for the Harriman Expedition, which traveled up the coast of Alaska as far as Plover Bay in Siberia. He was born on a small island called Nonamesset, which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth... Read full biography
One of America's prominent landscape and marine painters as well as teachers in the late 19th century, Robert Swain Gifford worked primarily in New York City with travels to many other locations. He was also one of the early artists into Alaska, going there in 1899 as a commissioned landscape painter for the Harriman Expedition, which traveled up the coast of Alaska as far as Plover Bay in Siberia. He was born on a small island called Nonamesset, which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth Islands off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. When Gifford was two years old, his family moved to Fairhaven where his father was employed as a boatman and fisherman. Two famous New Bedford artists, Albert Van Beest and William Bradford, worked... Read full biography
One of America's prominent landscape and marine painters as well as teachers in the late 19th century, Robert Swain Gifford worked primarily in New York City with travels to many other locations. He was also one of the early artists into Alaska, going there in 1899 as a commissioned landscape painter for the Harriman Expedition, which traveled up the coast of Alaska as far as Plover Bay in Siberia. He was born on a small island called Nonamesset, which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth Islands off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. When Gifford was two years old, his family moved to Fairhaven where his father was employed as a boatman and fisherman. Two famous New Bedford artists, Albert Van Beest and William Bradford, worked on the Fairhaven waterfront, and as a teen-ager, Gifford had the good fortune to become the friend and student of Van Beest, whom he too... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (22)
All MuseumsAmon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
625 C Street
Anchorage, AK 99501Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215-3886Everson Museum Of Art
401 Harrison Street
Community Plaza
Syracuse, NY 13202Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Box 466
Rockland, ME 04841-0466High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Hudson River Museum
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10701Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004New Bedford Whaling Museum
C/O Kendall Institute
18 Johnny Cake Hill
New Bedford, MA 02740-6398San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi Street
Lawrence, KS 66045-7500The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102University of Wyoming Art Museum
Centennial Complex
2111 Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423