A Home in the Wilderness (1866): Art, History and Details

A Home in the Wilderness (1866) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.

Object facts

• Title: A Home in the Wilderness
• Date: 1866
• Creator attribution: Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
• Culture: United States
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 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.)
• Collection: American - Painting
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1970.162

A detail from the museum

Gifford considered this painting to be one of his finest creations.

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange

Further reading listed by the museum

• Terry DeLapp, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 7, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.
• B. Gertrude Denton, letter to William S. Talbot, April 20, 1971, in CMA curatorial file.
• Terry DeLapp, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 7, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.