Description:
Attributed to Charles Henry Gifford (American, 1839-1904)
Niagara Falls
Unsigned, with a label from A.B. Crowell, New Bedford, Massachusetts, affixed to the back of the frame.
Oil on canvas, 9 x 14 in. (23.0 x 35.5 cm),framed.
Condition: Lined, minor dots of retouch to sky, fine craquelure.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
Frame dimensions are 13 7/8 x 18 7/8 in.
In an envelope that accompanies the painting is a February 27, 1987, article from Antiques & The Arts Weekly that describes the exhibition "An American Luminist: Charles Henry Gifford" at The Katonah Gallery, curated by John I.H. Baur. The exhibition had been presented earlier at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
A larger but similar view of Niagara Falls, dated 1873 and with Gifford's signature lower left, was sold September 24, 2011, at Keno auctions.
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