# Haverstraw Bay

- By: Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
- Date: 1868
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 24.2 x 50.8 cm (9 1/2 x 20 in.)
- Culture: United States
- Credit line: Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.43)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.43/2011.43_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.