Eastman Johnson, 1880 - Sanford Robinson Gifford - fine art print

Original artwork specifications from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

Johnson's sensitive portrayal of the landscape painter Gifford, his friend and neighbor in the Tenth Street Studio Building, formerly in lower Manhattan, was executed in the year of Gifford's death. Originally owned by Gifford's widow, it was bequeathed to Richard Butler, one of Gifford's most avid patrons, who instantly donated it to the Metropolitan Museum. Both men were founders of the Museum, which in 1881 accorded Gifford the first monographic show ever mounted by the institution. Johnson's warm, ruminative characterization of the artist may well be posthumous; the quiet self-possessed stare yet faintly melancholic repose of the sitter's visage are further complicated by the strong ambiguity of light and dark dividing it, seeming to illustrate emotional conflicts perceived by another of his close friends and revealed in a eulogy to the artist: "His character ... was serene and placid, resting on resources within himself. That placidity of the surface was an indication of the depth of the stream that flowed within, whose floods, and swirls, and eddies often caught him from the light and carried him into cavernous depths of shade."

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Information about the art print "Sanford Robinson Gifford"

Sanford Robinson Gifford is a piece of art created by Eastman Johnson. The version of the work of art measures the size of 26 3/4 x 22 1/8 in (67,9 x 56,2 cm) and was crafted with oil on academy board. Today, this work of art belongs to the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. We are delighted to reference that this public domain piece of art is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Richard Butler, 1888. : Gift of Richard Butler, 1888. Furthermore, alignment is in portrait format and has an image ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

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