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Cows in a Pond at Sunset

Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)LinkedCulture matchlcp-e669e4b41a03

Date: 1860
Medium: Oil on canvas
Culture: New York
Department: Arts of the Americas
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 72398

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Landscape painter Sanford Robinson Gifford portrayed the glowing light of sunset with brief brushstrokes and a limited, terracotta palette in this small oil sketch. With gradated bands of color, the artist captured the transitory moment’s golden, expansive sky and its reflection on the watering hole below. The bucolic scene evokes the tranquility and romance of nature. Across the pond, a home in the wilderness indicates man’s harmonious relation to the land.

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Credit line: Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Provenance: With Alexander Gallery, New York, by 1986; private collection, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

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Object type: AAT300033618

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American Landscape and Coastal Paintings
These works are 19th-century oil paintings depicting natural landscapes and seascapes from the northeastern United States, particularly coastal New England regions and rocky shores.
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