Sanford Gallery

Catalogue of a Very Fine and Important Collection of Original Modern Oil Paintings, Comprising the Gallery of Mr. James T. Sanford Together with that of a Well-known Art Collector of this City

• Author(s): Henry D. Miner, James T. Sanford

• Categories: Auction catalogs

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1876
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• Publisher: Unknown

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America and the Grand Tour

• Author(s): Sanford Robinson Gifford, Monica Anke Koenig

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1991
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Sanford R. Gifford

• Author(s): Sanford Robinson Gifford, Steven Weiss, Alexander Gallery (New York, N.Y.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1986
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1823-1880

• Author(s): Sanford Robinson Gifford

• Categories: Landscape painters

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1970
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Hudson River School Visions

• Author(s): Sanford Robinson Gifford

• Categories: Hudson River school of landscape painting

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2003
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• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sanford Gifford (American, 1823-1880), a leading Hudson River School landscape painter and a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was so esteemed by the New York art world that, at his untimely death, the Museum mounted a show of his work-the first monographic exhibition accorded any artist-and published a Memorial Catalogue that, for nearly a century, remained the principal source on his oeuvre. Gifford's art, which was inspired by the work of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, and by that of British artist J.M.W. Turner, and enriched by his travels in Europe (from 1855 to 1857, and from 1868 to 1869), came to be called "air painting," for he made the ambient light o...