Cows in a Pond at Sunset
Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
1860
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 19.1 × 35.9 cm (7 1/2 × 14 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- New York
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Landscape painter Sanford Robinson Gifford portrayed the glowing light of sunset with brief brushstrokes and a limited, terracotta palette in this small oil sketch. With gradated bands of color, the artist captured the transitory moment’s golden, expansive sky and its reflection on the watering hole below. The bucolic scene evokes the tranquility and romance of nature. Across the pond, a home in the wilderness indicates man’s harmonious relation to the land.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
