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Robert Swain Gifford

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Robert Swain Gifford (1840 - 1905) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts.  Robert Gifford is known for Etching, landscape and marine painting, Orientalism.

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 One of America's prominent landscape and marine painters as well as teachers in the late 19th century, Robert Swain Gifford worked primarily in New York City with travels to many other locations. He was also one of the early artists into Alaska, going there in 1899 as a commissioned landscape painter for the Harriman Expedition, which traveled up the coast of Alaska as far as Plover Bay in Siberia.

He was born on a small island called Nonamesset, which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth Islands off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. When Gifford was two years old, his family moved to Fairhaven where his father was employed as a boatman and fisherman.

Two famous New Bedford artists, Albert Van Beest and William Bradford, worked on the Fairhaven waterfront, and as a teen-ager, Gifford had the good fortune to become the friend and student of Van Beest, whom he took on occasional sketching trips in his father's boat. Gifford followed Van Beest to New York and sta   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8331 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  83
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Robert Swain Gifford
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Smith College Museum of Art June 2004 Muehlig, Linda Yes
American Art Review The Etchings of R Swain Gifford August 2003 Boyce, David B Yes
American Art Review The Tile Club (1877-1887) December 1999 Pisano, Ronald G Yes
83 Book References for Robert Swain Gifford
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Libby, Gary R. Reflections II: Watercolors of Florida 1835-2000 360 Yes
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
2008 Gilbert-Smith, Alma; Lonnie Pierson Dunbier and Jo Evarts The Power of Place: Paintings That Define the American Image
(Exhibition catalog)		 23 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Cleveland, David Adams Intimate Landscapes: Charles Warren Eaton and the Tonalist Movement in American Art, 1880-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 Yes
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
2002 Wright, David G R Swain Gifford: A Catalogue of Etchings 1865-1891 208 No
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn The Nineteenth Century: Rediscovering American Painters (Vose Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1999 Pisano, Ronald; M Apicello The Tile Club: And the Aesthetic Movement in America 112 Yes
1994 High Museum of Art American Paintings at the High Museum of Art 216 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1993 Woodward, Kesler E Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum 160 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1990 Editor, Sonoma County Museum Along the Russian River: An Artistic Interpretation
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Halsby, Julian Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters 223 Yes
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1989 Blaugrund, Annette Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Nelson, Harold B Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape 111 Yes
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Danly, Susan/Leo Marx The Railroad in American Art Representations of Technological Change 218 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1987 Johnson, Deborah J Whistler to Weidenaar American Prints 1870-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 No
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Tatham, David Prints and Printmakers of New York State, 1825-1940 277 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
(Exhibition catalog)		 314 Yes
1985 Campbell, Catherine New Hampshire Scenery 0 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Watrous, James American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980 334 Yes
1983 Moritz, Albert F America the Picturesque In Nineteenth Century Engraving 167 No
1982 Gerdts, William H (others) Tonalism An American Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 Yes
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1980 Archibald, E H H Dictionary of Sea Painters 455 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Ballinger, James K Beyond the Endless River W American Drawings, W/C-19th Cen
(Exhibition catalog)		 182 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1977 Benjamin, S G W Our American Artists 1879 and 1881 (reprints in one volume) 145 No
1977 Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis American Art at the Century 0 No
1976 Pierce, Patricia Jobe The Ten 201 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 Stein, Roger B Seascape and the American Imagination
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1974 Hall, Elton W R Swain Gifford 1840-1905
(Exhibition catalog)		 113 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1970 Cohen, Mildred Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1965 Everson Museum of Art American Painting from 1830 63 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1909 Rathbun, Richard The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70 140 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
1879 Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele Art in America a Critical and Historical Sketch 214 No
1879 Sheldon, G W American Painters With Eighty-three Engraved Examples of Their Work 184 No
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