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Gifford attended Brown University for two years in 1842–44, but did not graduate, telling his parents that he wished to be an artist. Soon after college, he went to New York City to study with the well-known art pedagogue (and fine watercolorist), the English emigré John Rubens Smith.
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Gifford spent the summer of 1846 touring and sketching in the Catskill and Berkshire mountains. By 1847, he had begun to show his work at the American Art-Union and the National Academy of Design in New York, where he was elected an associate in 1850 and an academician in 1854. In 1855, Gifford traveled to Europe, where he spent two-and-a-half ...
- Childhood and Early Career
- Gifford's Travels
- In The Studio
- "Chief Pictures"
- Gifford's Death
- Mt. Mansfieldpaintings/Controversy
- Other Paintings
Gifford wasborn in Greenfield, New York and spent hischildhood in Hudson, New York, the son of an iron foundry owner. He attendedBrown University 1842-44, where he joined Delta Phi, before leaving to studyart in New York City in 1845. He studied drawing, perspective and anatomy underthe direction ofthe British watercolorist anddrawing-master, John ...
Like mostHudson River School artists, Gifford traveled extensively to find sceniclandscapes to sketch and paint. In addition to exploring New England, upstateNew York and New Jersey, Gifford made extensive trips abroad. He first traveledto Europe from 1855 to 1857, to study European art and sketch subjects forfuture paintings. During this trip Giff...
Returningto his studio in New York City, Gifford painted numerous major landscapes fromscenes he recorded on his travels. Gifford's method of creating a work of artwas similar to other Hudson River School artists. He would first sketch rough,small works in oil paint from his sketchbook pencil drawings. Those scenes hemost favored he then developed ...
Giffordreferred to the best of his landscapes as his "chief pictures". Manyof his chief pictures are characterized by a hazy atmosphere with soft, suffusesunlight. Gifford often painted a large body of water in the foreground ormiddle distance, in which the distant landscape would be gently reflected.Examples of Gifford's "chief pictures" in museum...
On August29, 1880, Gifford died in New York City, having been diagnosed with malarialfever. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City celebrated his life thatautumn with a memorial exhibition of 160 paintings. A catalog of his workpublished shortly after his death recorded in excess of 700 paintings duringhis career. Between1955 and 1973, Gif...
Giffordpainted some 20 paintings from the sketches he did while in Vermont in 1858.(See "travels" section above.) Of these, "Mount Mansfield,1858" was the National Academy submission in 1859, and another painted in1859, "Mount Mansfield, Vermont," came in 2008 to be in the center ofa controversy over its deaccession by the NationalAcademy in New Yo...
·"SundayMorning at Camp Cameron" (at Meridian Hill about two miles northwest ofthe Capitol in Georgetown Heights) (1861) ·"Bivouacof the Seventh Regiment at Arlington Heights, Virginia" (1861) ·"Campof the Seventh Regiment, near Frederick, Maryland, in July 1863"(1864) ·"Twilightin the Adirondacks" ·"AHome in the Wilderness" (1866), Cleveland Museu...
Gifford's art, which was inspired by the work of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, and by that of J. M. W. Turner, and enriched by his travels in Europe (from 1855 to 1857, and from 1868 to 1869), came to be called "air painting," for he made the ambient light of each scene—color saturated and atmospherically potent—the ...
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Oct 8, 2003 · Gifford spent the summer of 1846 touring and sketching in the Catskill and Berkshire mountains, and by 1847, had begun to show his work at the American Art-Union and the National Academy of Design, where he was elected an associate in 1851 and an academician in 1854.
