Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford - Softcover

Gifford, Sanford Robinson; Avery, Kevin J.; Kelly, Franklin; Metropolitan Museum Of Art (New York, N. Y.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1588390985 ISBN 13: 9781588390981

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This volume is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 7, 2003 to February 8, 2004); the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (March 4 to May 16, 2004); and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (June 27 to September 26, 2004).

About the Author:

Kevin J. Avery is Associate Curator, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Franklin Kelly is Curator of American and British Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Eleanor Jones Harvey is Luce Center Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Heidi Applegate is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1588390985
• ISBN 13: 9781588390981
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 273