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
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.