"Chief Pictures"
Gifford referred to the best of his landscapes as his "chief pictures". Many of his chief pictures are characterized by a hazy atmosphere with soft, suffuse sunlight. Gifford often painted a large body of water in the foreground or middle distance, in which the distant landscape would be gently reflected. Examples of Gifford's "chief pictures" in museum collections today include:
- Lake Nemi (1856–57), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
- The Wilderness (1861), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
- A Passing Storm (1866), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
- Ruins of the Parthenon (1880), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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