Artist
Centurion, 1859–1880
Born 10 July 1823 in Greenfield, New York
Died 29 August 1880 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Hudson City Cemetery
, Hudson, New York
Proposed by John Frederick Kensett
Elected 4 June 1859 at age thirty-five
Archivist’s Note: After his death, a series of memorial addresses delivered at the clubhouse by Jervis McEntee, Edmund C. Stedman, Richard H. Stoddard, and John F. Weir was published as 
Gifford Memorial Meeting of the Century. Friday Evening, November 19, 1880.
Proposer of:
Seconder of:
- Eugene Benson
- Robert W. de Forest
- John C. Draper
- Amos F. Eno
- Charles Stewart Smith
- James T. Swift
- William H. Thomson
- James S. Warren
- Alexander H. Wyant
Supporter of:
Century Memorial
Whatever of fame may be won by profound study of the principles of an art, and poetic genius in illustrating them, whatever manliness and sincerity can do to gain respect, whatever love rewards gentle and constant sympathy, all these belonged to Gifford, and crown his memory among us.
Augustus R. Macdonough
1881 Century Association Reports
