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Birth
1823 (Greenfield, New York)
Death
1880 (New York City)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts/New York
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landscape, marine, and portrait painting-luminism
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Hudson River School Painters
Paris Pre 1900
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Known for realistic, refined depictions of 19th-century American
landscapes, Sanford Gifford used light as a technique to convey
emotions in a way that made him one of the country's leading
luminists. His mature style was a balancing of exacting detail of
forms with a sense of atmosphere that often sacrificed topographic
details. He finished his canvases by using multiple layers of
translucent varnish.
Early in his career, he was a portraitist,
but in the summer of 1846, a tr (showing 500 of 20549 characters). |
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