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S.R. Gifford, painter of atmosphere
The American landscape painter Sanford Robinson Gifford was among the artists, businessmen, art collectors, and philanthropists who founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1870. In 1880-1881, soon after Gifford's death, the museum honored him with an exhibition of his work, which had the distinction of being the first monographic show mounted at the museum. Now, more than a century later, a traveling exhibition entitled Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, which includes some seventy paintings, is on view at the museum through February 8, 2004. Future locations will be listed in ...