About This Artwork

Sanford Robinson Gifford
American, 1823-1880

Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills, c. 1861

Oil on canvas
17.2 x 24.1 cm (6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field, 1988.217

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford," February (?), 1881, cat. 1991.

New York, Alexander Gallery, "Sanford R. Gifford," March 20-April 19, 1986, cat. 11, (ill.)

Dallas Museum of Art, "'That Earlier, Wilder Image': Sketches by American Landscape Painters, 1830-1880," June 14-September 13, 1998; traveled to Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, October 11, 1998-January 10, 1999, Williamstown, Mass. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, February 6-May 9, 1999 (published as "The Painted Sketch: American Impressions of Nature, 1830-1880").

London, Tate Gallery, "American Sublime," February 20-May 19, 2002; traveled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, June 13-September 1, 2002, Minneapolis, Institute of Fine Arts, September 22-November 17, 2002.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Sanford Robinson Gifford," October 7, 2003-February 8, 2004; traveled to Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, March 4-May 16, 2004, Washington DC, National Gallery, June 27-September 26, 2004.

Publication History

Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), pp. 40-59, fig. 3.