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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.