October on the Coast of Massachusetts, 1873

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 29.21 × 55.25 cm (11 1/2 × 21 3/4 in.)

framed: 60.33 × 85.73 cm (23 3/4 × 33 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Arthur Jeffrey Parsons)

Accession Number

2015.19.2

Artists / Makers

Robert Swain Gifford (painter) American, 1840 - 1905

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Inscription

lower right: R Swain Gifford 73-; reverse: October, on Coast of Mass- / By R Swain Gifford

Provenance

Arthur Jeffrey Parsons [1856-1915], Washington;[1] gift 5 December 1907 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Parsons was chief of the division of prints at the Library of Congress from 1900 until his death.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Parsons, Arthur Jeffrey

Exhibition History

1955: Sulgrave Club, Washington, 17 December 1955 - 17 December 1956.

1963: A Century and a Half of American Painting, The Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, 3 April - 13 May 1963, no. 15.

1974: R. Swain Gifford, N.A. (1840-1905), Whaling Museum, New Bedford; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, 23 May - 10 November 1974.

1975: 19th Century American Landscape Paintings, Great Hall, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 15 October - 10 December 1975, no catalogue.

1977: Exhibition of 19th Century American Landscape Paintings, Committee on House Administration, United States Capitol, Washington, 31 January - 31 March 1977, no. 11.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 298, repro.