id:			172806
accession number:	1922.220
share license status:	CC0
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Autumn, a Wood Path, 1876. Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823-1880). Oil on canvas; unframed: 38 x 31.8 cm (14 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1922.220

title:				Autumn, a Wood Path
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creation date:			1876
creation date earliest:		1876
creation date latest:		1876
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creditline:			Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823-1880)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 38 x 31.8 cm (14 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed lower right:  S R Gifford / 1876
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Sanford R. Gifford
	opening date:   1970-10-25T04:00:00
	<i>Sanford R. Gifford</i>. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (organizer) (October 25-December 15, 1970); Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY (January 1-February 1, 1971).

	title:		American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1979-07-07T04:00:00
	<i>American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* ?????  Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Loan Exhibition (1878), no. 10 as Woods in Autumn by S.K. [sic?] Gifford.<br>Austin, TX, University Art Museum, Sanford R. Gifford (25 October - 15 December 1970); traveled to Albany, NY, Albany Institute of History and Art (1 January - 1 February 1971); cat no. ?, ill. p. 76.<br>Coshocton, OH, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (7 July - 1 November 1979), traveled to Lakewood, OH, The Kenneth C. Beck Center (17 September - 13 October 1980), p. 11.<br>Mansfield, OH, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape (8 March - 5 April 1981), cat. no. 6, p. 6.

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PROVENANCE

	(George E. Gage Galleries, 1922)
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fun fact: 
The artist's namesake, Gifford Pinchot, was the first chief of the United States Forest Service.

digital description: 
Gifford created several paintings depicting forest interiors, including this intimately scaled canvas set amid full autumnal blaze. The dense network of overarching trees casts shadows on the rugged ground below, restricting sunlight to haphazard patches. A solitary hiker is visible in the distance.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin</em>. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp 21-35.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p 26,
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	Weiss, Ila. <em>Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford</em>. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p 306; Mentioned: p 307
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	Chong, Alan. <em>European &amp; American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p 85
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	Green, Tyler. <em>Emerson's Nature and the Artists: Idea As Landscape, Landscape As Idea</em>. Munich: Prestel, 2021.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 55, fig. 8
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IMAGES

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