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presented to the Metropolitan Museum, 1887; medal, New Orleans Exp. 

 1885; medal, Mid-Winter Exhibition, San Francisco; bronze medal. Pan 

 American Exp., Buffalo, 1901; Shaw Purchase, Soc. Amer. Artists, 1903; 

 bronze medal, St. Louis Exp. 1904; George Inness gold medal, Nat. Acad, 

 Design, 1905. N. A. 1907; member N. Y. Water Color Club. Mount 

 Vernon, N. Y, 



THE HILLSIDE. 

 Signed and dated, 1908. On canvas, ;i;i H., 43 W. 



GiFFORD, R. SWAIN. 



Born on the Island of Naushon, Mass., December 23, 1840; died, New 

 York City, January 15, 1905. Landscape painter and etcher. Learned 

 the rudiments of his art from Albert Van Beest, a Dutch marine painter, 

 at New Bedford, Mass. Moved to Boston in 1864 and two years later set- 

 tled in New York. First exhibited in 1864 at the National Academy of 

 Design, of which he was elected an associate in 1867 and an Academician 

 in 1878. Traveled extensively, painting in Oregon and California in 1869, 

 and later in Europe, Algiers, and Egypt. Gold medal. Centennial Exh., 

 Philadelphia, 1876; prize of $2,500 in New York in 1885; bronze medal, 

 Paris Exp. 1889; silver medal, Pan-American Exp., Buffalo, 1901; gold 

 medal, Charleston Exp. 1902. Mr. Gifford was a member of the Society 

 of American Artists, the American Water Color Society, the Society of 

 London Painters, the National Arts Club and the Royal Society of Painters- 

 Etchers, London. 



NEAR THE OCEAN. 



Signed and dated, 1879. On canvas, 22% H., 40 W. 



Hassam, Childe;. 



Born, Boston, 1859. Pupil of Boulanger and Lefebvre in Paris. Bronze 

 medal, Paris Exp. 1889; gold medal, Munich, 1892; medal, Art Club, Phil- 

 adelphia, 1892; medal, Columbian Exp., Chicago, 1893; prize, Cleveland 

 Art Assoc. 1893; Webb prize, Soc. Amer. Artists, 1895; prize, Boston Art 

 Club, 1896; second class medal, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, 1898; Tem- 

 ple gold medal, Penn. Acad. Fine Arts, 1899; silver medal, Paris Exp. 1900; 

 gold medal, Pan-American Exp., Buffalo, 1901; gold medal, St. Louis 

 Exp. 1904; Clarke prize, Nat. Acad. Design, 1905; third class medal, Car- 

 negie Institute, Pittsburg, 1905; Lippincott prize, Penn. Acad. Fine Arts, 

 1906; Carnegie prize, Soc. Amer. Artists, 1906; third prize, Worcester, 

 1906. N. A. 1906; member Amer. Water Color Soc; Munich Secession. 

 Studio, New York. 



SPRING, NAVESINK HIGHLANDS. 

 Signed and dated, 1908. On canvas, 25 H., 30X W. 



