Haverstraw Bay
Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
1868
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 24.2 x 50.8 cm (9 1/2 x 20 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Located about 40 miles north of New York City, Haverstraw Bay is the widest point on the Hudson River. During the 1860s, it was a prime area for shad fishing, and Gifford’s painting records this activity taking place amid a delicately luminous morning haze.
