TitleLandscape
Artist
Robert Swain Gifford
(American, 1840 - 1905)
Date1878
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 12 × 20 in.
Framed: 23 3/8 × 31 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.
SignedSigned at bottom right: "R Swain Gifford / 1878"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, June 3, 1878
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number492-P
Label TextSwain Gifford, as the artist was known, garnered recognition for his paintings and prints of stormy coastal regions. The small scale and broad treatment reflect the artist's longstanding admiration for the intimacy and freshness of the artists of the French Barbizon School whose works he had seen while traveling abroad during the 1870s. As one contemporary noted, "Mr. Gifford will paint a barren moor under a leaden sky so that it shall almost palpitate with emotion."
