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| Sanford Robinson Gifford art links |
Sanford Robinson Gifford Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Sanford Robinson Gifford available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Sanford Robinson Gifford at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Kaaterskill Falls, 1871
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Sanford Robinson Gifford at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
The View from Eagle Rock, New Jersey
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
2 works online
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Mount Washington from the Saco River: A Sketch, ca.1858
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Marshes of the Hudson, 1878
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Ruins of the Parthenon
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Torre dei Schiavi, Roman Campagna
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Sunset over New York Bay, 1878
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Rocks at Porcupine Island Near Mount Desert, 1864
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of the City of New York
Coney Island, ca.1862-65
New-York Historical Society
2 paintings online
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
A Sketch at Mount Desert, Maine, 1864
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Long Branch Beach (Summer Day on the New Jersey Coast), 1867
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
A Lake Twilight, 1861
Seattle Art Museum
Sanford Robinson Gifford at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Morning in the Adirondacks
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Vermont
The View from South Mountain in the Catskills
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866
Morning in the Hudson, Haverstraw Bay, 1866
The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee
Autumn in the Catskills, 1871
(Note: Images are generally larger than displayed on the museum's web page. Here is a link to the jpg image.)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "American 1700-1900" category, then see the work in the second row of thumbnails)
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Sanford Robinson Gifford at The Art Renewal Center
33 works online
Sanford Robinson Gifford at The Athenaeum 
149 works online by Gifford
Sanford Robinson Gifford at CGFA
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
White Mountain Art and Artists
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
The View from Eagle Rock, New Jersey, 1862
Artcyclopedia
"Sanford R. Gifford and the Hudson River School"
Resource Library Magazine
Sanford Robinson Gifford at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Sanford Robinson Gifford papers online
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
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