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Cows in a Pond at Sunset

1860
oil on canvas
19.1 x 35.9 cm (7 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

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Kauterskill Clove, Catskill Mountains

1880
oil on canvas
33.7 x 27 cm (13 1/4 x 10 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

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Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills

c. 1861
oil on canvas
17.2 x 24.1 cm (6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

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Mrs. Sanford Robinson Gifford (Mary Cecilia Gifford)

1878
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
20.8 x 18.1 cm (8 3/16 x 7 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

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Kaaterskill Falls

1871
oil on canvas
14 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (37.5 x 31.8 cm) Framed : 25 1/2 x 23 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

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Tivoli

1870
oil on canvas
26 3/8 x 50 3/8 in. (67 x 128 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

 GAAnonymous
A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)

1862
oil on canvas
48 x 39 7/8 in. (121.9 x 101.3 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
Description: From 1845 until his death in 1880, Gifford chose Kauterskill Clove in the Catskill Mountains as one of his favorite subjects. This painting, dated 1862, was called "Kauterskill Falls" in the catalogue of the 1876 New York Centennial Loan Exhibition of Paintings, as well as in the 1881 official catalogue of Gifford's work. The title has...
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Lake Scene

1866
Oil on Canvas
45.7 x 81.3 cm (18 x 32")

Brigham Young University, Museum of Fine Arts

Provo, UT

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Derwentwater

1856
oil on canvas
17 5/8 x 25 1/2 in. (44.8 x 64.8 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

notes
Writing in 1858, a critic for the Crayon praised Gifford’s landscape paintings—including this vista of England’s popular Lake District—as follows: “His pictures are generally chaste, and unpretending in color, and are remarkable for a luminous atmosphere. Their poetic quality is recognizable in a fine sense of the picturesque, a feeling of...
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Study for a Self-Portrait

ca. 1848
oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 8 11/16 in. (25.9 x 22 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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