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A Home in the Wilderness
Sanford Robinson Gifford1866
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Gifford’s view of Mount Hayes in New Hampshire records human intrusion into a remote landscape. On the left riverbank a log cabin stands amid a recently cleared patch of land with several tree stumps, while figures in its doorway greet a man who has arrived with a canoe of supplies.
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- Title: A Home in the Wilderness
- Creator: Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
- Date Created: 1866
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 114.9 x 173.7 x 16.5 cm (45 1/4 x 68 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.); Unframed: 76.8 x 135.7 cm (30 1/4 x 53 7/16 in.); Former: 96 x 154.5 x 9 cm (37 13/16 x 60 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Provenance: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, (Sloan & Roman, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), (The Terry DeLapp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, sold to Sloan & Roman)1, (T. Gilbert Brouillette [1906-1970], Staten Island, NY, sold to the Terry DeLapp Gallery) 1, James M. Hartshorne [d. 1887?], New York, NY?, (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY) 1
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.162
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed lower right: SR Gifford. 1866.
- Fun Fact: Gifford considered this painting to be one of his finest creations.
- Department: American Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: America, 19th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange
- Collection: American - Painting
- Accession Number: 1970.162
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