Hudson River School visions : the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
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Hudson River School visions : the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
Metropolitan Museum of Art , Yale University Press [distributor], c2003
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Exhibition catalogue
"This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Hudson River School visions: the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford,' held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 8, 2003-February 8, 2004; the Amon Carter Museum, Fort, Worth, March 6-May 16, 2004; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 26-June 27, 2004"--T.p. verso
"The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington." -- T.p.verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-261) and index
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Sanford Robinson Gifford was a leading Hudson River School artist. His love of nature first surfaced as a youth growing up in Hudson, New York, and, together with his admiration for the works of Thomas Cole, inspired him to become a landscape painter. Influenced as well by J.M.W. Turner and by trips to Europe in the 1850s, Gifford's art was termed "air painting", for he made the ambient light of each scene - colour-saturated and atmospherically enriched - the key to its expression. Gifford was a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the time of his death, he was so esteemed by the New York art world that the Museum mounted an exhibition of his work - its first accorded an American artist - and published a Memorial Catalogue that for nearly a century remained the principal source on the artist. This volume features essays examining Gifford's position in the Hudson River School, his Catskill and Adirondack subjects, his patrons, and his adventures as a traveller both at home and abroad. More than 70 of the artist's best-known sketches and paintings are discussed and reproduced in colour.
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