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These nine paintings from the Terra's collection are included in Chicago's only major exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The exhibition is on view at The Newberry Library September 27, 2013 – March 4, 2014.
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Date: 1866
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.57
Text Entries: Sanford Robinson Gifford depicted the wilderness of the Catskill mountain range beside elements of human settlement and progress in this canvas, a powerful example of Hudson River School painting. Gifford found in nature the means for aesthetic, nationalistic, and often moral expression in response to industrial growth, westward expansion, and post-Civil War tension of the mid-nineteenth century.