A Sketch at Mount Desert, Maine

Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford American, 1823–1880

Date1864

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions7 x 12 in. (17.8 x 30.5 cm)
Frame: 14 x 19 x 2 3/4 in. (35.6 x 48.3 x 7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number72.1.7

On View

Not on view

Provenance**Created United States, 1864; collection of the artist; [estate sale, Thomas E. Kirby & Co., New York, April 11, 1881, no. 52]; R. S. Hobbs; [James McGrath, Boston, ca. 1968]; [Vose Galleries, Boston, 1968]; Douglas B. Collins, Longmeadow, MA, 1969; to father, Webster Collins, Longmeadow; [Vose Galleries, 1972]; sold to NCMA, 1972.
Published ReferencesA Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N. A. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1881), cat. no. 365 (listed as A Sketch on Mount Desert, Maine and dated July 1864)

Catalogue of Valuable Oil Paintings, Works of the Famous Artist, Sanford R. Gifford, N. A. (auction catalogue) (New York: Thomas E. Kirby & Co., 1881), part 1, no. 52 (listed as Mount Desert, Maine)

Sanford Robinson Gifford (exhibition catalogue) (Austin: University of Texas Art Museum, 1970), no 25, illus. (b-w).

"Biennial Report: Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1973), listed 42, illus. (b-w) 43.

"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1261 (February 1974), listed no. 439, illus. (b-w).

American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 17, illus. (b-w).

Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989), discussed 245-47, illus. (b-w) 245.

Pamela J. Belanger, Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert (exhibition catalogue) (Rockland, ME: The Farnsworth Art Museum, 1999), illus. (color) 105.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Loan Exhibition of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N. A.," Winter 1880-81, no. 2.

Austin, TX, University of Texas Art Museum, "Sanford Robinson Gifford," October 25-December 13, 1970; Albany, NY, Albany Institute, December 28, 1970-January 21, 1971; New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, February 8-February 27, 1971, no. 25, illus. (b-w).

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19,1975, no. 17, illus. (b-w).

Rockland, ME, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert," June 13-October 24, 1999, illus. (color) 105.
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