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The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine
Sanford Robinson Gifford1864-1865
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
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- Title: The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine
- Creator: Sanford Robinson Gifford
- Date Created: 1864-1865
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 27.9 x 48.3 cm (11 x 19 in.) framed: 57.2 x 77.5 cm (22 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: The artist; possibly (sale, Artists' Fund Society by Leeds & Miner, New York, 29 December 1865, no. 50, as _Green Mountain, Mt. Desert_); Graham.[1] Possibly John Frederick Kensett [1816-1872], New York.[2] Possibly Miss A.M. Williams, Augusta, Maine, in 1881.[3] Lee Freedman, Southwest Harbor, Maine, in 1978. (Thomas Colville, New Haven); purchased 1979 by Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., Los Angeles;[4] gift (partial and promised) 2004 to NGA; gift completed 2008. [1] Annotated copy of the sale catalogue, microfilm roll N429, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. [2] A painting titled _A Study from Nature--Mt. Desert_, included in the 1873 exhibition of works owned by Kensett, may be the NGA painting. [3] A painting titled _A View from Green Mountain, Mount Desert, Me._ and owned by Miss Williams, which may be the NGA painting, was listed in _A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., with a Biographical and Critical Essay by Prof. John F. Weir, of the Yale School of Fine Arts_, [Waldo S. Pratt], New York, 1881: no. 385. [4] Provenance information for the late 1970s is from the 1981 catalogue for the exhibition of the Ganz collection.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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