America / 1866
A Home in the Wilderness
A Home in the Wilderness
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs A Home in the Wilderness as painting (America · 1866).
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
Gifford considered this painting to be one of his finest creations.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this painting as oil on canvas and credits Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880).
The museum's collection notes: Gifford’s view of Mount Hayes in New Hampshire records human intrusion into a remote landscape. On the left riverbank a log cabin stands amid a recently cleared patch of land with several tree stumps, while figures in its doorway greet a man who has arrived with a canoe of supplies.
FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE
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