Recent Arrivals

Insights into historic American artwork newly available from galleries and dealers around the country

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)
A Sketch of Clay Bluffs on No Man’s Land

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880) was an American landscape painter and a prominent member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists. A masterful practitioner of luminism, Gifford’s work became notable for its emphasis on the effects of light and atmosphere.

According to Gifford scholar and former Met curator Kevin J. Avery, A Sketch of Clay Bluffs on No Man’s Land is the larger and later of two versions of the subject by Sanford Gifford that have recently come to light. Gifford completed as many as six paintings, three dated 1877, one 1878, that must all stem from one recorded visit he made in October 1877 to the small, now uninhabited island today known as No Man’s Land, three miles southwest of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The artist’s primary objective may have been fishing, an avid pursuit of Gifford’s that he depicted in three of the paintings of No Man’s Land. The piece is available through Lincoln Glenn gallery with an asking price of $85,000.

Lincoln Glenn
126 Larchmont Avenue
Larchmont, NY 10538
(914) 315-6475
gallery@lincolnglenn.com
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Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Sunday Morning at Eleven O’Clock (A Recollection of a Childhood Mood)

Sunday Morning at Eleven O’Clock (A Recollection of a Childhood Mood) was inspired by a childhood argument Charles Ephraim Burchfield had with his Sunday School teacher who had extremely violent religious views. Young Charles ran out of class but had to wait in the church courtyard until the other children left at 11 a.m. so as not to alert his grandfather by returning home early. He exhibited the work and wrote about the incident in the catalog of his first one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1930. In it, Burchfield wrote, “I had had a quarrel with my Sunday-school teacher, and had run outside. Wishing to avoid the embarrassment of having to explain at home my premature return from Sunday-school, I hung around in the church-yard until the class was dismissed. A still, hot June morning; the Sunday quiet had settled down over the town—trees stood motionless as if yearning toward the sun; the roses drooped in the heat; all things seemed blended in one harmonious whole; I only was out of harmony.”

Thomas Colville Fine Art
111 Old Quarry Road
Guilford, CT 06437
(203) 453-2449
tlc@thomascolville.com
www.thomascolville.com