Catskill Mountain Landscape, 1849 Sketchbook
Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)
Date:
c. 1849
Medium:
Pencil on paper
Dimensions:
5 7/8 H x 8 3/4 W, 55 pp.
Inscription:
Inscribed on front cover: 1849 / Catskill Mts. / Sacandaga & Hudson
Credit:
Gift of Marian Gifford Johnson Shaw and Mrs. George C. Cummings
Accession Number:
1966.13.1
Comments:
This sketchbook was begun before Gifford had established himself as a leading member of the second generation of Hudson River school painters. This early sketchbook contains many drawings made on one of the artist's trips through the Catskill Mountain region. All of these drawings are done from life. Like his colleagues, Gifford spend summers in the countryside, gathering raw material in his sketchbooks for paintings he would execute later in his New York City studio.
