id: 144968 accession number: 1970.162 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.162 updated: 2022-01-04 16:42:04.537000 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, 19th century 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 (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 * Paris, Exposition Universelle (1867) as Un Interieur dans le desert, no. 19; as belonging to M. Knoedler
New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gifford Memorial (1880-81), accompanying publication of Memorial Catalogue.
Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review, 1970 (7 February - 10 March 1971), no cat (see 1971 Bulletin).
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
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. --- 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: Gifford considered this painting to be one of his finest creations. digital description: Gifford’s view of Mount Hayes in New Hampshire records human intrusion into a remote landscape. On the left riverbank a log cabin stands amid a recently cleared patch of land with several tree stumps, while figures in its doorway greet a man who has arrived with a canoe of supplies. wall description: Gifford’s view of Mount Hayes in New Hampshire records human intrusion into a remote landscape. On the left riverbank a log cabin stands amid a recently cleared patch of land with several tree stumps, while figures in its doorway greet a man who has arrived with a canoe of supplies. A contemplative mood permeates the scene, whose tranquility is underscored by the luminous, atmospheric haze. The artist once described this painting as having "as much light and sunshine as I could squeeze out of my paint tubes." --- 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: 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 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