Mountain Landscape; verso: Partial Mountain Landscape 1864

Editor: Here we have Sanford Robinson Gifford's "Mountain Landscape; verso: Partial Mountain Landscape" from the Harvard Art Museums. I'm struck by how ephemeral and faint the landscape seems, like a half-formed memory. What catches your eye in this piece? Curator: Ah, yes, that delicate touch! Gifford, a master of light, often captured that fleeting sense of place. It’s almost as if he’s inviting us into his own personal experience of the mountain – a whisper of a landscape, more felt than seen. Does it remind you of a dream? Editor: It does! It’s so subtle. Thank you! Curator: My pleasure. It’s in that subtlety that Gifford truly shines.