Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection
Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection
Sanford Robinson Gifford
River Scene by Moonlight
Auction Closed
April 20, 09:25 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sanford Robinson Gifford
1823 - 1880
River Scene by Moonlight
stamped with the artist's estate stamp (on the reverse prior to lining)
oil on canvas
8⅝ x 15⅝ in. (21.9 x 39.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1865.
We are grateful to Dr. Ila Weiss, the leading Sanford Robinson Gifford scholar, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Thomas P. Kirby & Co., New York (acquired in 1881)
Charles Dana Gibson, Bristol, Rhode Island
Josephine Knowlton, Bristol, Rhode Island
Douglas B. Collins, North Falmouth, Massachusetts (until 1975)
Davis & Long Co., New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 0141 (acquired from the above on February 4, 1977)
Alan Gussow, A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land, New York, 1965, pp. 60-62, illustrated
“New York Galleries,” Arts Magazine 45, no. 5, 1971, p. 64 (as Night on the Hudson River)
Austin, University of Texas at Austin; Albany, The Albany Institute of History and Art; New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1823-1880, 1970-71, no. 59, pp. 30-31, illustrated (as Night on the Hudson River)
New York, Davis & Long Co., American Painting, 1976, no. 13, illustrated
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1980, fig. 86, p. 89, illustrated
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019-21 (on loan)