View from South Mountain, in the Catskills, (painting)

Object Details

Notes

Coll. List (Typescript), ca. 1970.

Mitchell, Mark D., "The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Handbook of the Art Collection," Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2005, pg. 42.

Summary

View from a mountain plateau looking out over a valley toward a mountainside in the distance, with a hazy sun low in the sky in the background. In the foreground two tiny figures are barely visible standing at the edge of the plateau.

Data Source

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Date

1873

Control number

IAP 53970010

painter

Gifford, Sanford Robinson 1823-1880

Type

Paintings

Medium

Oil

Owner/Location

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum 1171 Main Street St. Johnsbury Vermont 05819

Title

South Mountain, Catskills, (painting)

Topic

Landscape--New York

Landscape--Mountain--Catskill Mountains

Figure group--Male

Record ID

siris_ari_62654

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