Sanford Robinson Gifford

Sanford Robinson Gifford

BORN: July 10, 1823 in Greenfield, New York.
DIED: August 29, 1880 in New York City, New York.

MOVEMENT: Hudson River School.

INTERESTING FACTS:
Gifford attended Brown University before he studied under John R. Smith, a British watercolorist.
He became an associate member at the National Academy in 1851 and an academician in 1854.
Gifford traveled to Europe with Albert Bierstadt and Worthington Whittredge.
He also traveled to the Rocky Mountains with Whittredge and John Frederick Kensett. Gifford was part of the Hayden Expedition in surveying the Rocky Mountains.

NOTABLE WORKS:
Lake Nemi, Ruins of the Parthenon, Kaaterskill Falls.

GIFFORD Art Book contains 80 reproductions of Luminist landscapes with title and date.