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Painter:
Gifford, Sanford Robinson 1823-1880  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Indiana University Indiana University Art Museum Bloomington Indiana 47405 Accession Number: 80.112
Date:
1862
Notes:
Currier Gallery of Art, "American paintings of the nineteenth century from the collection of Morton C. Bradley, (exhibition) April 12-May 27," Manchester, NH: Currier Gallery, 1962.
Indiana University Art Museum, 1990.
"An American Picture-Gallery: Recent Gifts from Morton C. Bradley, Jr.," Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Art Museum, 1992, pg. 107.
"American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1980.
Summary:
"Middle horizon landscape - two silhouetted figures near frozen lake in foreground; cottages in distance; sky after sunset, with moon."
Topic:
Landscape--Season--Winter  Search this
Landscape--Time--Twilight  Search this
Landscape--Celestial--Moon  Search this
Landscape--Lake  Search this
Figure group  Search this
Architecture exterior--Domestic--Cottage  Search this
Control number:
IAP 81390030
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_193529