Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy
Andover, MA 01810-4166
Andover, MA 01810-4166
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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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Museums & Collections (51)
All MuseumsAdirondack Experience
9097 State Route 30
Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812-0099Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695Art Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110Ball State University Museum of Art
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie, IN 47306Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
1200 Forrest Park Drive
Nashville, TN 37205-4242Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Everson Museum Of Art
401 Harrison Street
Community Plaza
Syracuse, NY 13202Figge Art Museum
225 West 2nd Street
Davenport, IA 52804-4520Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, FAMSF
50 Hagiwara
Tea Garden Drive-Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
University of Vermont
61 Colchester Avenue
Burlington, VT 05405Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard University
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Hunter Museum of American Art
10 Bluff View
Chattanooga, TN 37403Locust Grove Estate & Museum
2683 South Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Amherst College
Po Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Sam Fox Arts Center/Washington University
One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1214
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899Minnesota Marine Art Museum
800 Riverview Drive
Winona, MN 55987Munson
310 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13502Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado, 8
Madrid, SpainMuseum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10029National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004New Bedford Free Public Library Art Room
613 Pleasant St
New Bedford, MA 02740New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024Phoenix Art Museum
1625 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1685RISD Museum
224 Benefit Street
20 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02903-2723Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063Springfield Museum of Art
107 Cliff Park Road
Springfield, OH 45501St Johnsbury Athenaeum
1171 Main Street
St Johnsbury, VT 05819The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Dayton Art Institute
456 Belmonte Park North
Dayton, OH 45405The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0703The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Parthenon
Centennial Park
Po Box 196340
Nashville, TN 37219-6340The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014Williams College Museum of Art
15 Lawrence Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609-3196Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271