The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sundown
Auction Closed
April 20, 12:24 AM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sanford Robinson Gifford
1823 - 1880
Sundown
signed S R Gifford and dated 1863 (lower right)
oil on canvas
9½ x 15½ in. (24.1 x 39.4 cm.)
Executed in 1863.
We are grateful to Dr. Ila Weiss, the leading Sanford Robinson Gifford scholar, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Vose Galleries, Boston
Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York
Sotheby Parke-Bernet New York, April 17, 1975, lot 34 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0042 (acquired from the above)
(possibly) New York, Artists' Fund Society, 1864, no. 7
(possibly) New York, Century Association, Gifford Memorial Meeting of the Century, 1880, no. 16
Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, 1987, pl. 15, p. 229, illustrated (as Sunset)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1980, pl. 5, p. 15, fig. 125, pp. 118-19, illustrated (as Sunset)
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: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, 2003, no. 15, pp. 117, 119, illustrated (as Sunset)