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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

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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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A Home in the Wilderness

1866
oil on canvas
Framed - h:114.93 w:173.67 d:16.51 cm (h:45 3/16 w:68 5/16 d:6 1/2 inches) Unframed - h:76.80 w:135.70 cm (h:30 3/16 w:53 3/8 inches) Former - h:96.00 w:154.50 d:9.00 cm (h:37 3/4 w:60 13/16 d:3 1/2 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

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Autumn, a Wood Path

1876
oil on canvas
Unframed - h:38.00 w:31.80 cm (h:14 15/16 w:12 1/2 inches)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

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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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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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Early October in the White Mountains

1860
oil on canvas
14 1/8 x 24 1/8 "

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

St. Louis, MO

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From the Shawangunk Mountains

oil on canvas on panel
3 1/8 x 5 3/8 in. (7.9 x 13.7 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Hunter Mountain, Twilight

1866
oil on canvas
Image: 30 5/8 x 54 1/8 in. (77.8 x 137.5 cm) Frame: 38 1/2 x 62 3/16 in. (97.8 x 158.0 cm)

The Terra Foundation for American Art

Chicago, IL

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by a cowherd and a house with lighted windows and smoke curling from its chimney underscore the mood of calm repose and domesticity.
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Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore

1871
Oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 36in. (51.4 x 91.4cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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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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