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Haverstraw Bay
Sanford Robinson Gifford1868
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Located about 40 miles north of New York City, Haverstraw Bay is the widest point on the Hudson River. During the 1860s, it was a prime area for shad fishing, and Gifford’s painting records this activity taking place amid a delicately luminous morning haze.
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- Title: Haverstraw Bay
- Creator: Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
- Date Created: 1868
- Physical Dimensions: Unframed: 24.2 x 50.8 cm (9 1/2 x 20 in.)
- Provenance: Theodore Weston (about 1867-68) [possibly];, (Vose Balleries, Boston, MA, sold to Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Vignos), Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Vignos, Jr. Chagrin Falls, OH by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.43
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed lower left: S.R. Gifford
- Fun Fact: Commercial and recreational fishing for now endangered American shad is currently prohibited on the Hudson River.
- Department: American Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: America, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos, Jr.
- Collection: American - Painting
- Accession Number: 2011.43
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