id: 144968 accession number: 1970.162 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.162 updated: 2025-02-09 03:29:47.003000 A Home in the Wilderness, 1866. Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880). Oil on canvas; framed: 114.9 x 173.7 x 16.5 cm (45 1/4 x 68 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.); unframed: 76.8 x 135.7 cm (30 1/4 x 53 7/16 in.); former: 96 x 154.5 x 9 cm (37 13/16 x 60 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange 1970.162 title: A Home in the Wilderness title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1866 creation date earliest: 1866 creation date latest: 1866 current location: 206 American Landscape creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange copyright: --- culture: America technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 114.9 x 173.7 x 16.5 cm (45 1/4 x 68 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.); Unframed: 76.8 x 135.7 cm (30 1/4 x 53 7/16 in.); Former: 96 x 154.5 x 9 cm (37 13/16 x 60 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: SR Gifford. 1866. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford opening date: 2003-10-07T00:00:00 Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 7, 2003-February 8, 2004); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (March 6-May 16, 2004); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (June 27-September 26, 2004). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Paris, Exposition Universelle (1867) as Un Interieur dans le desert, no. 19; as belonging to M. Knoedler', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gifford Memorial (1880-81), accompanying publication of Memorial Catalogue.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review, 1970 (7 February - 10 March 1971), no cat (see 1971 Bulletin).', 'opening_date': '1971-02-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, America in Art: Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years (6 June - 11 August 1991), p. 40, ill. p. 41', 'opening_date': '1991-06-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Metropolitan Musuem of Art (10/7/2003 - 2/8/2004); Amon Carter Museum (3/6/2004 - 5/16/2004); and National Gallery of Art (6/27/2004 - 9/26/2004): "Hudson River School: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford" exh. cat. no. 70, p.172-174.', 'opening_date': '2003-10-07T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1970- footnotes: citations: (Sloan & Roman, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: Late 1960s-1970 footnotes: citations: (The Terry DeLapp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, sold to Sloan & Roman)1 date: c.1960-late1960s footnotes: *
1 A hand-typed fact sheet (in CMA curatorial file) presumably produced at the time of the painting’s acquisition in 1970 lists a “John Johnson” in the provenance following the Terry DeLapp Gallery.  While it is possible that Johnson, who appears to have owned or bought/sold at least one other Gifford painting, acted as an intermediary or agent in the sale of the painting, DeLapp emphatically states that he sold the painting directly to Sloan & Roman.
citations: (T. Gilbert Brouillette [1906-1970], Staten Island, NY, sold to the Terry DeLapp Gallery) 1 date: Until c. 1960 footnotes: *
1 Although Brouillette was a collector as well as a dealer, Terry DeLapp, to whom Brouillette sold the painting, indicates Brouillette acted as a dealer in the sale of this painting.  Brouillette’s papers at the Archives of American Art contain no reference to the painting.
citations: James M. Hartshorne [d. 1887?], New York, NY? date: By 1880 footnotes: citations: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY) 1 date: By 1867 footnotes: *
1 The painting was exhibited at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867, and the catalogue lists it as belonging to M. Knoedler, Esq.
citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Terry DeLapp, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 7, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: B. Gertrude Denton, letter to William S. Talbot, April 20, 1971, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Terry DeLapp, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 7, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Weiss, Ila Joyce Solomon. Sanford Robinson Gifford: (1823-1880). New York, N.Y., Columbia Univ., Diss., 1968. page number: url: B. Gertrude Denton, letter to William S. Talbot, April 20, 1971, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Terry DeLapp, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 7, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and John F. Weir. A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A. [New York]: [Press of F. Hart & Co.], 1881. page number: url: Weiss, Ila Joyce Solomon. Sanford Robinson Gifford: (1823-1880). New York, N.Y., Columbia Univ., Diss., 1968. page number: url: Blake, William P. Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867: Published Under Direction of the Secretary of State by Authority of the Senate of the United States. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1869. page number: url: Weiss, Ila Joyce Solomon. Sanford Robinson Gifford: (1823-1880). New York, N.Y., Columbia Univ., Diss., 1968 page number: url: “A Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21–35. page number: Mentioned: p. 26, no. 66 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152465 Talbot, William S. “Landscape and Light.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 9–20. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 9-13, figs. 3-4; Reproduced: p. 18-19 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152464 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 229 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n249 Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 66 - 67 url: Cole, Mark, "Picture Perfect", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 48 no. 8, October 2008 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2008-08/page/6 Greenwald, Diana Seave. "The Big Picture: Thomas Moran’s The Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone and the Development of the American West." Winterthur Portfolio 49, no. 4 (2015): 175-210. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 196-197 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26478147 Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Winterthur Portfolio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. page number: Reproduced and mentioned; pp. 196-197, fig. 15 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.162/1970.162_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.162/1970.162_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.162/1970.162_full.tif