Lake Scene (possibly A Rainy Day on Lake Kenogamy), (painting).

Lake Scene (possibly A Rainy Day on Lake Kenogamy), (painting).

Gifford, Sanford Robinson, 1823-1880, painter. (attributed to)

Lake Scene (possibly A Rainy Day on Lake Kenogamy), (painting).

Oil on paper attached to composition board.

8 x 16 1/8 in. (20.3 x 41.0 cm).

Landscape looking across a broad lake toward mountains in the distance, partially covered in a shower of rain. The lake is bordered on the right by a thick forest. A tiny figure of a moose can be seen swimming across the middle of the lake.

Landscape -- Lake -- Kenogamy

Landscape -- Mountain

Landscape -- Canada -- Quebec

Landscape -- Weather -- Rain

Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1948.204

Bequest of Gould, Clara Hinton, Santa Barbara, California 1948.

The painting was formerly attributed to Homer Dodge Martin. "A later signature "H. D. Martin" was added to the painting at the lower left; it floated on top of the varnish surface and was removed in 1969, uncovering the remains of an indecipherable original signature, apparently deliberately removed." The painting has been attributed to Sanford Gifford both in style and in subject matter. Gifford was known to have traveled frequently to Lake Kenogamy in Quebec in the 1870s. A now unlocated painting titled "A Rainy Day on Lake Kenogamy" (1878) was exhibited at the memorial exhibition of Gifford's paintings.

Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 407-408.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, fig. 239.

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