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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 21, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 39 | $****** - ****** | A LAKE TWILIGHT |
paintings
41 x 71.8 cm (16.14 x 28.27 in)
oil on canvas
signed SR Gifford. and dated 1861. (lower right); also inscribed in another hand Twilight In the Green Mountains. Vt. by/S.R Gifford New York (on an original label affixed to the stretcher)
The artist
Young Men's Association, Troy, New York, 1861 (acquired from the above)
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
James Maroney, Inc., New York
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
Acquired by the present owner, by 1980
(possibly) Troy, New York, Young Men's Association, 1861, no. 7 (as Sunset)
Washington, D.C., Adams Davidson Galleries, American Luminism, February-April 1980, no. 7, p. 14, illustrated p. 15
University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School on Loan from a Friend of the Museum of Art, January-March 1981, no. 27, pp. 7, 74, 123, illustrated pp. 29, 75
New York, Alexander Gallery, Sanford R. Gifford, March-April 1986, no. 20, illustrated n.p.
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; New York, The National Academy, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, August 1997-September 1999, p. 72, illustrated p. 73
London, Tate Britain; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880, February-November 2002, no. 18, pp. 116-17, illustrated p. 117
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, October 2003-September 2004, no. 14, p. 117, 120-121, illustrated p. 118
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; New Paltz, New York, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University; Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum; Winchester, Virginia, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley; Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading Public Museum; Austin, Texas, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, August 2005-May 2012, pp. 78, 157, illustrated p. 79
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., New York, 1881, no. 233, p. 23
signed SR Gifford. and dated 1861. (lower right); also inscribed in another hand Twilight In the Green Mountains. Vt. by/S.R Gifford New York (on an original label affixed to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16 1/8 by 28 1/4 inches
(41 by 71.8 cm)
