SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD | STUDY FOR 'MORNING IN THE ADIRONDACKS, 1867'

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SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD
1823 - 1880
STUDY FOR 'MORNING IN THE ADIRONDACKS, 1867'

signed SRGifford (lower left)
oil on canvas
11 ¾ by 10 inches
(29.8 by 25.4 cm)
Painted circa 1866-67.

We are grateful to Dr. Ila Weiss, the leading Sanford Robinson Gifford scholar, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Condition Report:
The canvas is wax -lined and there is frame abrasion at edges. There is surface cracking and the work appears to be slightly dirty. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion and lines of inpainting to address surface cracking throughout, some if which is visible to the naked eye.

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Provenance:
The artist

Estate of the above (sold: Thos. E. Kirby & Co., New York, April 28-29, 1881, lot 61, as In the Adirondacks)

Private collection (acquired at the above sale)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1972

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1975