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21 Feb - 19 May 2002
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Born 10 July 1823, Greenfield, New York
Died 24 August 1880, New York City
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Gifford grew up in Hudson, near the Catskills, but moved to New York in 1845 to study art. The work of Thomas Cole inspired Gifford to dedicate himself to landscape painting; he became a member of the National Academy in 1854, and made his first trip to Europe in the following year, studying the work of Turner, Constable, and Jean Francois Millet. After returning to America in 1857, Gifford made numerous sketching trips to the mountains in the northeastern United States, resulting in several major paintings, including Mount Mansfield, 1858. In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, Gifford enlisted in the New York National Guard. During the late 1860s he again travelled in Europe, and in 1870 he went to the Colorado Rockies with John Frederick Kensett, and then trekked to Wyoming with F V Hayden's government survey party. When he died in 1881, his work was celebrated in a memorial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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