Sanford Robinson Gifford
American, 1823–1880
A Home in the Wilderness, 1866
Oil on canvas
76.8 × 135.7 cm (30 ¼ × 53 ½ 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
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.
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