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Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York then travelling to Fort Worth and Washington, DC in 2003-2004. This handsome, slightly oversize catalogue (10.25x11.25<">) contains four major essays on the 19th-century artist Gifford (he was also one of the founders of the Met) in addition to catalogue entries on the 70 paintings in the exhibition. The essays discuss Gifford's treatment of landscape, the paintings he made of the Catskills, his use of art to record his travels, and the aesthetic proclivities of his patrons. The catalogue essays are lengthy and include reproductions of preparatory drawings and related material as well as half- or three-quarter-page color plates of Gifford's paintings, many of which were small in scale. A chronology of his career and a selected bibliography are provided. Avery is a curator at the Met, Kelly is a curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The volume is distributed by Yale U. Press (their ISBN is 0-300-10184-8). Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Kevin J. Avery is Associate Curator, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Franklin Kelly is Curator of American and British Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Eleanor Jones Harvey is Luce Center Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Heidi Applegate is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, New York.
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Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
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Hardbound. Tan cloth with pictorial dustjacket., 288 pp., 156 BW illus., 82 color plates. "Sanford Gifford (1823-1880), a leading Hudson River School landscape painter and a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was so esteemed by the New York art world that, at his untimely death, the Museum mounted a show of his work - the first monographic exhibition accorded any artist - and published a Memorial Catalogue that, for nearly a century, remained the principal source on his oeuvre." "Gifford's art, which was inspired by the work of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, and by that of J.M.W. Turner, and enriched by his travels in Europe (from 1855 to 1857, and from 1868 to 1869), came to be called "air painting," for he made the ambient light of each scene - color saturated and atmospherically potent - the key to its expression. His approach to painting and his unique style gave rise to a highly distinctive body of work, of enchanting and mesmerizing effect. While Gifford himself compiled a "List of Chief Pictures" late in his career, a significant part of his extant oeuvre consists of small-scale studies, preparatory works in oil, and original drawings, most of which are in annotated sketchbooks and document the progression from on-site record to idealized vision achieved in his major pictures."-- Hardcover Jacket. VG (Like New; may have label from previous owner.). Seller Inventory # 100796
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Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
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Hardbound. Condition: New in shrinkwrap. Tan cloth with pictorial dustjacket., 288 pp., 156 BW illus., 82 color plates. "Sanford Gifford (1823-1880), a leading Hudson River School landscape painter and a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was so esteemed by the New York art world that, at his untimely death, the Museum mounted a show of his work - the first monographic exhibition accorded any artist - and published a Memorial Catalogue that, for nearly a century, remained the principal source on his oeuvre." "Gifford's art, which was inspired by the work of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, and by that of J.M.W. Turner, and enriched by his travels in Europe (from 1855 to 1857, and from 1868 to 1869), came to be called "air painting," for he made the ambient light of each scene - color saturated and atmospherically potent - the key to its expression. His approach to painting and his unique style gave rise to a highly distinctive body of work, of enchanting and mesmerizing effect. While Gifford himself compiled a "List of Chief Pictures" late in his career, a significant part of his extant oeuvre consists of small-scale studies, preparatory works in oil, and original drawings, most of which are in annotated sketchbooks and document the progression from on-site record to idealized vision achieved in his major pictures."-- Hardcover Jacket. Seller Inventory # 163828
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HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL VISIONS, THE LANDSCAPES OF SANFORD R. GIFFORD
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 11 x 10 in. 273 pp. Ochre cloth boards. Lavish color plates. Condition is AS NEW ; like new on all points, some pencil numbers on corner of half title pg. DJ is FINE ; like new, a touch rubbed. Art. RGR. Seller Inventory # 22179