Intro to Modern Art History
Gifford, Sanford Robinson - Venetian Sails: A S...
Gifford trapped real light inside thin layers of varnish to turn a polluted Venetian lagoon into a glowing mirror. He...
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Gifford, Sanford Robinson - Sunset on the Pall...
Sanford Robinson Gifford was running out of time. A brutal fever was closing in. He dragged thick layers of varnish...
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Gifford, Sanford Robinson - Sunday Morning in C...
Sanford Robinson Gifford traded grand mountain peaks for flat muddy military tents in 1861. He was serving in the Union...
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Gifford, Sanford Robinson - Siout, Egypt (1874)
Gifford sat in his New York studio and painted a beautiful lie. He used thin glazes to trap real light...
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Gifford, Sanford Robinson - Ruins of the Parthe...
Sanford Robinson Gifford was dying of malaria in 1880 while painting the ruins of the Parthenon. He was becoming a...
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Gifford, Sanford Robinson - On the Nile (1872)
Rich Gilded Age tycoons got bored with upstate trees. They wanted heat and exotic danger. Sanford Robinson Gifford gave them...
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Gifford, Sanford Robinson - October in the Cats...
Gifford knew his time was running out. In 1880 he faced his mortality by trapping a dying sun inside a...
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Gifford, Sanford Robinson - Mount Washington fr...
Gifford obsessed over the weight of the air itself. While America careened toward civil war in 1858, he painted a...
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Gifford, Sanford Robinson - Mount Rainier (1875)
Gifford survived the brutal wilderness only to paint a golden lie for New York fat cats. They wanted manifest destiny...
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Gifford, Sanford Robinson - Mount Mansfield, Ve...
Trains were dumping crowds of loud tourists into the pristine Vermont wilderness. Sanford Robinson Gifford saw the end coming. He...
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