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Robert Swain Gifford (December 23, 1840 - January 13, 1905) was an American landscape painter. He was influenced by the Barbizon school. Gifford was born on Nonamesset Island, in the Elizabeth Islands, and much of his work focuses on the landscapes of New England. He, along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools, helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. His painting from the island, ''Pettes Cove'', is illustrative of his masterful marine work. In 1867, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full member in 1878. In the 1870s, he undertook several journeys to Europe and the Middle East with fellow artists such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, and painted some subjects from those regions.〔"In The Presence of Beauty: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Paintings." exh. cat. New York: Hawthorne Fine Art.〕 In 1899, he was an artist on the famous Harriman Alaska Expedition. Gifford died at his home in New York City in 1905. Some of his works hang in the most prominent galleries in the USA, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. He was a member of the Society of American Artists. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Swain Gifford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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