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Sanford Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American landscape painter and a leading member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists. A highly-regarded practitioner of Luminism , his work was noted for its emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects.
Isola Bella (lit. 'beautiful island') is one of the Borromean islands of Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. The island is situated in the Borromean Gulf 400 metres from the lakeside town of Stresa . Isola Bella is 320 metres long by 400 metres wide and is divided between the Palace, its Italianate garden , and a small fishing village.
Sanford Robinson Gifford: More images: 10 July 1823 29 August 1880 One of the leading members of the Hudson River School. Gifford's landscapes are known for their emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects, and he is regarded as a practitioner of Luminism, an offshoot style of the Hudson River School. Régis François Gignoux: More images ...
67 cm × 128 cm (26 in × 50 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Tivoli is a 19th-century painting by American artist Sanford Robinson Gifford. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts a sunlit day in the town of Tivoli in Italy. The view of the town, the Aniene River, and surrounding valley was described by Gifford as ...
Sanford Robinson Gifford's A Twilight in the Catskills (1861). In 1860 the painting was exhibited from June 8 to July 25 at Goupil's in New York City. [8] It was well received, with contemporary viewers relating its purity of nature with spirituality.
Thomas Worthington Whittredge[1] (May 22, 1820 – February 25, 1910) was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford. He traveled widely and excelled at landscape ...
McEntee was a particularly close friend of Hudson River School artists Sanford Robinson Gifford, Worthington Whittredge, John Ferguson Weir, as well as figurative painter Eastman Johnson. [6] He was made an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1860, and a full academician in 1861. In 1869 he visited Europe, painting much in Italy. [7]
Hunter Mountain, Twilight (1866) by Hudson River School artist Sanford Robinson Gifford, showing the devastation wrought by years of tanbarking and logging. Syracuse native and constitutional lawyer Louis Marshall , with a summer residence at Knollwood Club on Saranac Lake and a prime mover for the establishment of the Adirondack and Catskill ...