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Sanford Robinson Gifford

1823–1880

Eastman Johnson. Portrait of Gifford, 1880.
Eastman Johnson. Portrait of Gifford, 1880.

Raised in the Hudson Valley, Gifford sketched the Catskills, Adirondacks and Shawangunk Mountains. He traveled widely in Europe and joined Ferdinand Hayden's geological survey in Wyoming in 1870. Later visits to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska extended his landscape subjects.

Works

A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove) — Sanford Robinson GiffordSanford Robinson Gifford

A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)

Sources

Eastman Johnson · Gift of Richard Butler, 1888 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 1.0 / Public Domain Portrait source · Licence