"The artist daringly creates an enormous void, and what he does so brilliantly is to fill the void with this extraordinary light."
Curator Betsy Kornhauser on Sanford Robinson Gifford's painting "A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)."
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“The artist daringly creates an enormous void, and what he does so brilliantly is to fill the void with this extraordinary light.”
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
1862