Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Dreamy Day in New England
1848
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, paperboard, Framed: 15 1/2 × 19 5/8 × 3 1/2 in. (39.4 × 49.8 × 8.9 cm.)
Unframed: 5 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (14 × 24.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Paul H. Miller
Object Number
1942.6
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1942; Mrs. Paul H. Miller, Baltimore
Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., "Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)," The University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas, October 27-December 13, 1970, p. 27, cat. no. 40, ill. p. 64; circulated to The Albany Institute of History and Art and Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, through February 27, 1971.
The Mint Museum, "Identity Theft: How a Gifford Became a Cropsey and a Cropsey a Gifford," November 21, 2009 - March 28, 2010.
The Mint Museum, "Identity Theft: How a Gifford Became a Cropsey and a Cropsey a Gifford," November 21, 2009 - March 28, 2010.
William S. Talbot, "Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900," New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977, p. 443.
Sona K. Johnston, "American Paintings 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1983, no. 47, p. 67.
John K. Howat, intro., "American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School," New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, fig. 2, p. 216, ill.
Inscribed: Signed, lower right: "SR Gifford". Not dated.