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Artist(s): Sanford Robinson Gifford (Greenfield, NY, Jul 10, 1823 - Aug 24, 1880, New York, NY)
Title: Lake Scene - Mountain Background
Date: 1867
Dimensions: 5 3/4 in. x 10 3/8 in. (14.61 cm x 26.35 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Bequest of Candace C. Stimson, 1944.18

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Periods and Styles: The Hudson River School
Exhibitions: Currents/Crosscurrents
Exhibitions: Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1823-1880, University Art Museum, The University of Texas, 10/25/1970 - 2/27/1971
Visions of the New Land: 19th Century American Landscape, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1980 - 12/7/1980
Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/1983 - 5/1/1983
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/1992 - 12/20/1992
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/21/1994 - 4/3/1994
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/5/1995 - 12/17/1995
The Constructed Photograph: Jo Babcock, Gillian Brown, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Doug Prince, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/17/1997 - 3/23/1997
Framing America's Landscapes: Painting from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/20/1998 - 7/31/1999
Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/28/2000 - 7/31/2000
The American Land: Selections from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2001 - 4/8/2001
In A Perfect World:Bermuda in the Context of American Landscape Painting, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 5/15/2002 - 9/15/2002
The Small Format Landscape, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/23/2005 - 4/9/2006
Natural Selections, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/14/2013 - 3/16/2014
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
In Tandem: Inspirations and Collaborations, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/12/2015 - 1/3/2016
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/2017 - 7/30/2017
Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art, 1850–1950, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 3/7/2021
Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/23/2022 - 7/31/2022

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