ID 1119075
Lot 219 | SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823-1880)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
A Sketch On the Long Island Coast
indistinctly signed with initials 'SRG' (lower center)
oil on canvas
6 3⁄8 x 15 1⁄8 in. (16.2 x 38.4 cm.)
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above, 1880.
Sale: Thomas E. Kirby & Co., Auctioneers, New York, 28-29 April 1881, sold by the above.
Richard Butler, acquired from the above.
George F. McMurray, Glendale, California.
Shannon’s, Greenwich, Connecticut, 26 April 2001, lot 89.
Private collection, New York.
Shannon’s, Greenwich, Connecticut, 23 October 2008, lot 84.
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008.
Literature
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., New York, 1881, p. 29, no. 358.
I. Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, p. 358n154.
Exhibited
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: The George F. McMurray Collection, November 30, 1960–January 4, 1961 (as Seascape, Long Island).
Austin, Texas, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art; Albany, New York, Albany Institute of History and Art; New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), October 25, 1970–February 27, 1971.
| Artist: | Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 - 1880) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 - 1880) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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