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Sanford Robinson Gifford

Venetian Sails: A Study

1873

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  • Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
  • Title Venetian Sails: A Study
  • Date 1873
  • Medium Oil on canvas on masonite
  • Dimensions unframed | 13 x 24 in.
  • Credit line Bequest of Charles Parsons, 1905
  • Object number WU 2183

Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/09/2016 - 01/15/2017

Travel and Tourism in American Culture
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/01/2005 - 10/21/2005

Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10/08/2003 - 02/08/2004
National Gallery of Art, 06/27/2004 - 09/26/2004
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 03/06/2004 - 05/16/2004

Green Acres: Neocolonialism in the U.S.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/11/1992 - 11/01/1992

Nineteenth Century Art from the Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/19/1986 - 04/01/1986

Venice: The American View, 1860–1920
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Francisco, California), 10/20/1984 - 01/20/1985
The Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio), 02/02/1985 - 04/21/1985

Parsons Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/15/1983 - 08/21/1983

The Centennial Exhibition
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/15/1981 - 10/11/1981

Nineteenth Century American Painting
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 11/16/1979 - 01/06/1980

Charles Parsons: Portrait of a St. Louis Collector
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 12/12/1976 - 01/30/1977

Memorial Exhibition of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, R.A
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York), 10/20/1880 - 04/01/1881

Global Vistas: American Art and Internationalism in the Gilded Age [online only]
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis

1905
Charles Parsons, St. Louis

Inscription [LR of panel, in brown paint:] S R Gifford 1873

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