CC0 · no rights reserved
A Home in the Wilderness
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Gifford’s view of Mount Hayes in New Hampshire records human intrusion into a remote landscape. On the left riverbank a log cabin stands amid a recently cleared patch of land with several tree stumps, while figures in its doorway greet a man who has arrived with a canoe of supplies.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineA Home in the Wilderness, 1866. Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880). Oil on canvas; framed: 114.9 x 173.7 x 16.5 cm (45 1/4 x 68 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.); unframed: 76.8 x 135.7 cm (30 1/4 x 53 7/16 in.); former: 96 x 154.5 x 9 cm (37 13/16 x 60 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange, 1970.162
