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Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
October 8, 2003–February 8, 2004
The Erving and Joyce Wolf Gallery, 1st floor
Only the second retrospective of this Hudson River School master’s work since the Metropolitan’s memorial exhibition in 1880, this exhibition includes nearly 70 paintings of sites in America, Europe, and the Middle East. Gifford's taste for radiant light and aerial effects distinguishes his landscapes from the work of his contemporaries and manifests a personal and poetic strain anticipating later trends in American art. Among subjects with which he was especially identified are those of the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River, dreamily transfigured or poignantly charged by his distinctive vision.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
In connection with the exhibition, a full-day scholarly symposium entitled "New Light on American Landscape Painting" will be held at the Metropolitan Museum on Friday, January 23, from 9:45 to 5:00 in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Free with Museum admission; reservations and tickets not required. For more information, call (212) 570-3710 or e-mail lectures@metmuseum.org.
The exhibition is made possible by Deedee and Barrie Wigmore.
The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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