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CHARLES GIFFORD

• CHARLES GIFFORD PEACHES STILL
  CHARLES GIFFORD PEACHES STILL LIFE PAINTING Massachusetts1839-1904Depicts two peaches on a white table top bathed in warm light. Gifford was the son of a ship carpenter, entering the trade only to abandon it to join the Civil War. After the war ended, Gifford devoted his life to art, widely self taught he was exposed to such artists as Alfred van Beest, William Bradford, Albert Bierstadt, R. Swain Gifford, and Albert Pinkham Ryder who exhibited or worked in New Bedford. As he grew older, his works became more popular, he opened his own studio in New Bedford.