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A Home in the Wilderness

1866

Sanford Robinson Gifford

(American, 1823–1880)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 114.9 x 173.7 x 16.5 cm (45 1/4 x 68 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.); Unframed: 76.8 x 135.7 cm (30 1/4 x 53 7/16 in.); Former: 96 x 154.5 x 9 cm (37 13/16 x 60 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange 1970.162
Public Domain
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Location
206 American Landscape
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Gifford considered this painting to be one of his finest creations.

Description

Gifford’s view of Mount Hayes in New Hampshire records human intrusion into a remote landscape. On the left riverbank a log cabin stands amid a recently cleared patch of land with several tree stumps, while figures in its doorway greet a man who has arrived with a canoe of supplies.
An oil painting of a landscape depicts mountains reflected in a lake in orange tones. At the center of the image, Mount Hayes, a squat mountain that rises to a peak and hazier peaks behind it, stands in front of a muted yellow and blue sky and casts a shadow across the lake in the foreground. In the lower left, red and yellow-leafed trees dotted with evergreens surround a log cabin on the lakeside.

A Home in the Wilderness

1866

Sanford Robinson Gifford

(American, 1823–1880)
America

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