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Sanford Robinson Gifford

Early October in the White Mountains

1860

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  • Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
  • Title Early October in the White Mountains
  • Date 1860
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 14 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.
  • Credit line Bequest of Charles Parsons, 1905
  • Object number WU 4064

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

American Places: Painting the Landscape in the Nineteenth Century
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/20/2013 - 01/06/2014

The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/02/2008 - 07/21/2008

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
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 03/06/2004 - 05/16/2004
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10/08/2003 - 02/08/2004
National Gallery of Art, 06/27/2004 - 09/26/2004

Beginnings: The Taste of the Founders
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/21/2000 - 03/19/2000

American Painting of the 19th Century
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Vienna, Austria), 03/17/1999 - 06/20/1999

The Beautiful, The Sublime, and The Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 02/18/1984 - 04/08/1984

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

The Way We See It: America by Americans 1850–1980
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 10/10/1982 - 11/07/1982

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

Portraits and Landscapes

Kaleidoscope of American Painting, Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), 12/02/1977 - 01/22/1978

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

Salon de Resserre: Selections of European and American Art of the Nineteenth Century from the Washington University Collections
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 02/01/1970 - 03/06/1970

St. Louis Exposition and Fair
Art Gallery of the St. Louis Exposition and Fair Association (St. Louis, Missouri)

First Annual Exhibition
Western Academy of Art (St. Louis, Missouri)

1905
Charles Parsons, St. Louis

Inscription [LL of canvas, in brown paint:] S R. Giffo [end of name obscured by frame] / 186 [last number of date obscured by frame]

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