Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Avery, Kevin J.
2. Kelly, Franklin
3. Applegate, Heidi
4. Harvey, Eleanor Jones
5. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution
6. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, host institution
7. National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution

Description

1. xiv, 273 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 x 29 cm

Summary

1. "Sanford Gifford (1823-1880), a leading Hudson River School landscape painter and a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was so esteemed by the New York art world that, at his untimely death, the Museum mounted a show of his work - the first monographic exhibition accorded any artist - and published a Memorial Catalogue that, for nearly a century, remained the principal source on his oeuvre." "Gifford's art, which was inspired by the work of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, and by that of J.M.W. Turner, and enriched by his travels in Europe (from 1855 to 1857, and from 1868 to 1869), came to be called "air painting," for he made the ambient light of each scene - color saturated and atmospherically potent - the key to its expression. His approach to painting and his unique style gave rise to a highly distinctive body of work, of enchanting and mesmerizing effect. While Gifford himself compiled a "List of Chief Pictures" late in his career, a significant part of his extant oeuvre consists of small-scale studies, preparatory works in oil, and original drawings, most of which are in annotated sketchbooks and document the progression from on-site record to idealized vision achieved in his major pictures."--Jacket.

Alternative title

1. Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford

Subject

1. Gifford, Sanford Robinson, 1823-1880 -- Exhibitions
2. Gifford, Sanford Robinson, 1823-1880
3. Hudson River school of landscape painting -- Exhibitions
4. Hudson River school of landscape painting

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Nature distilled : Gifford's vision of landscape / Franklin Kelly -- Gifford and the Catskills / Kevin J. Avery -- A traveler by instinct / Heidi Applegate -- Tastes in transition : Gifford's patrons / Eleanor Jones Harvey -- Catalogue -- Chronology / Claire A. Conway and Alicia Ruggiero Bochi.

Call number

1. JQF 19-1250

Note

1. Catalog of an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 8, 2003-February 8, 2004; at the Amon Carter Museum, March 6-May 16, 2004; at the National Gallery of Art, September 26-June 27, 2004.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-261) and index.

Local note

1. Art & Architecture Collection copy is the gift of Costa Constantine.

Author

1. Gifford, Sanford Robinson, 1823-1880.

Title

1. Hudson River School visions : the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford / edited by Kevin J. Avery and Franklin Kelly ; assisted by Claire A. Conway ; with essays by Heidi Applegate and Eleanor Jones Harvey.

Publisher

1. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2003]

Copyright date

1. ©2003

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-261) and index.

Connect to:

1. http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/Hudson_River_School_Visions_The_Landscapes_of_Sanford_R_Gifford
2. Table of contents

Added author

1. Avery, Kevin J., editor, author.
2. Kelly, Franklin, editor, author.
3. Applegate, Heidi, author.
4. Harvey, Eleanor Jones, author.
5. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
6. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, host institution.
7. National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.

Other form:

1. Online version: Gifford, Sanford Robinson, 1823-1880. Hudson River School visions. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003 (OCoLC)863051631

LCCN

1. 2003016027

ISBN

1. 1588390977 (Hardcover)
2. 9781588390974 (Hardcover)
3. 1588390985 (pbk.)
4. 9781588390981 (pbk.)
5. 0300101848 (Yale University Press)
6. 9780300101843 (Yale University Press)

Research call number

1. JQF 19-1250