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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2013 | Christie's | New York | American Art | 49 | $****** - ****** | Sunday Morning in the Camp of the Seventh Regiment near Washington, D.C., in May 1861 |
paintings
40.6 x 76.2 cm (15.98 x 30 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'SR Gifford. 1861.' (lower right)
Mr. and Mrs. S.B. Caldwell, Brooklyn, New York, 1862.
Sale: Leavitt, Strebeigh & Co., New York, The Entire Collection of Paintings Belonging to Mrs. S.B. Caldwell, Brooklyn, L.I., 13 May 1870. The artist.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1871.
New York, Dusseldorf Gallery, The Thirty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, April 14-June 23, 1862, no. 104. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Logan Square, The Great Central Fair, June 1864, no. 74. New York, Clinton Hall Art Galleries, May 1870. New York, The Armory, Seventh Regiment New Armory Fair: Loan Art Exhibition, Consisting of Choice Examples of the Modern Foreign and American Schools of Painting, Rare Etchings, Engravings, and Other Art Works, November 1879. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Second Loan Exhibition, 1880-81, no. 104. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Life in America: A Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings Held During the Period of the New York World's Fair, April 24-October 29, 1939, no. 185. Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, and elsewhere, The Civil War: The Artist's Record, November 18-December 31, 1961, no. 49. Washington, D.C., The White House, The Oval Office, 1976-1989, on loan. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, and elsewhere, The Civil War and American Art, November 16-April 28, 2012, no. 33.
"Fine Arts, 37th Annual Exhibition of the NAD," New York Herald, April 16, 1862. "Fine Arts: The NAD. Third and Concluding Notice," Albion, May 17, 1862, p. 237. J. Hay, "Inklings of Idleness," Washington Sunday Morning Chronicle, April 20, 1862. "The Lounger: The National Academy," Harper's Weekly, May 3, 1862, p. 274. Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Statuary, Etc. of the Art Department in the Great Central Fair, held in Logan Square, June 1864, for the Benefit of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1864, p. 7, no. 74 (as Camp Cameron). "Fine Art Sale," The New York Times, May 10, 1870, p. 5 (as Sunday Morning in the Camp of the Seventh Regiment). Artist's notes, transcribed in S.R. Gifford, letter to Rev. O.B. Frothingham, New York, 1874 (as Sunday Morning at Camp Cameron). Seventh Regiment New Armory Fair, Catalogue of the Loan Art Exhibition, Consisting of Choice Examples of the Modern Foreign and American Schools of Painting, Rare Etchings, Engravings, and Other Art Works, New York, 1879, p. 14, no. 146 (as Sunday Morning--Camp Cameron). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., New York, 1881, p. 24, no. 246 [104] (as Sunday Morning at Camp Cameron, near Washington, in May, 1861). M.G. Van Rensselaer, The American Architect and Building News, vol. XI, no. 320, Boston, Massachusetts, January-June 1882, p. 64 (as Sunday Morning at Camp Cameron). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Life in America: A Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings Held During the Period of the New York World's Fair, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1939, pp. 138-39, pl. 185, illustrated. H.W. Williams, The Civil War: The Artist's Record, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1961, pp. 59, 68, no. 49, illustrated (as Preaching to the Troops). Kennedy Galleries, Inc., The National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1861-1900, vol. 2, New York, 1973, p. 340, no. 104. I. Weiss, Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), Ph.D. dissertation, New York, 1977, pp. 207-09, 215, 430, fig. VII A1, illustrated (as Sunday Morning at Camp Cameron, near Washington, in May, 1861). I. Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, New Jersey, 1987, pp. 47, 92, 162, 227, 327, illustrated. M. Simpson, Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War, San Francisco, California, 1988, p. 179 (as Sunday Morning at Camp Cameron, Near Washington, in May 1861). S.W. Sears, The Civil War: A Treasury of Art and Literature, New York, 1992, p. 126, pl. 37, illustrated (as Preaching to the Troops). K. Bott, Deutsche Künstler in Amerika, 1813-1913, Weimar, Germany, 1996, p. 388. B.L. Bassham, Conrad Wise Chapman: Artist & Soldier of the Confederacy, Kent, Ohio, 1998, pp. 108-09, fig. 55, illustrated (as Preaching to the Troops, or Sunday Morning at Camp Cameron, near Washington, May, 1861). D.B. Dearinger, A. Berman, Rave Reviews: American Art and Its Critics, 1826-1925, New York, 2000, pp. 201-02, no. 27, illustrated. K.J. Avery, F. Kelly, eds., Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, New York, 2003, pp. 147, 158, 160, 249. D.W. Hill, ed., An Idler: John Hay's Social and Aesthetic Commentaries for the Press during the Civil War, 1861-1865, Bethesda, Maryland, 2006, p. 76. E.J. Harvey, The Civil War and American Art, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2012, pp. 115-18, 120, 295, no. 33, illustrated (as Preaching to the Troops or Sunday Morning at Camp Cameron, near Washington, May 1861).
