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A Home in the Wilderness, 1866. oil on canvas.
oil on canvas · Framed: 114.9 x 173.7 x 16.5 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- A Home in the Wilderness
- Artist
- Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
- Date
- 1866
- Medium
- 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.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1823–1880
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.