A Home in the Wilderness
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 76.8 × 135.7 cm · framed: 114.9 × 173.7 × 16.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund; The Butkin Foundation; Dorothy Burnham Memorial Collection and various donors by exchange
Accession Number
1970.162
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.