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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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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Robert Swain Gifford available:    Lemuel Eldred,  Charles Henry Gifford,  James Hamilton,  William Morris Hunt,  John Francis Murphy,  Bruce (Robert Bruce) Crane,  Charles Harold Davis,  Alvan Fisher,  Laura Coombs Hills,  William Bradford,  John William Casilear,  James Champney,  Chauncey Foster Ryder,  Fitz Henry Lane,  Anna Mary Richards Brewster,  Thomas Sully,  Charles Edwin Lewis (CEL) Green,  Dwight William Tryon,  Bryson (Henry Bryson) Burroughs,  Mauritz Frederik Hendrick De Haas,  Alexander Brook,  William Louis Sonntag Sr,  Benjamin Champney,  Lillian Mathilde Genth



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Robert Swain Gifford


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Book Illustration
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Adirondack Mountains
  • Africa
  • Alaska Before 1940
  • Boston Before 1900
  • California Before 1940
  • Colorado Before 1900
  • Egypt
  • England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
  • Europe
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
  • Missouri River Valley Before 1900
  • Monterey, Carmel California
  • New Bedford, Massachusetts
  • Northern California Before 1900
  • Pacific Northwest Before 1900
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • Venice, Italy
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • National Arts Club, New York
  • New York Etching Club
  • Tile Club, New York
Art Teacher
  • Albert Van Beest
Art School
  • Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Teacher
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Expedition Artist of Drawings, Paintings, and/or Photographs
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Marine Before 1900
  • Miniature Specialty
  • Oriental Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
  • Western Subject Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Centennial Exposition 1876, Philadelphia
  • Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
  • Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Lotos Club
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • National Arts Club
  • San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco

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