About This Artwork

Sanford Robinson Gifford
American, 1823-1880

Cows in a Pond at Sunset, 1860

Oil on canvas
19.1 x 35.9 cm (7 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.)
signed, lower left in wet paint: "SR Gifford '60"
Through prior acquisition from the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection, 1988.317

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Steven Conn and Andrew Walker, “The History in the Art: Painting the Civil War,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), pp. 60-81, fig. 11.