Jasper Francis Cropsey Paintings

In “Lake Wawayanda, 1881” Jaspar Francis Cropsey depicts trees in autumn color on the shore of a placid lake while the sun begins to set overhead.

Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900) "Autumn Sunset" ca. 1868 Oil on Canvas 23-1/4 x 34 inches / 35 x 44 1/2 inches framed **Included in the Newington Cropsey Foundation Catalogue Raisonne #2284 - See Images Attached Provenance (probably) Barbour (probably) [unidentified auction, lot no. 631] Wolfgang Kallen, by 1964 Private collection, Woodbury, New York, by 1964- By descent in the family to private collection, Fresh Meadows, New York Spanierman Gallery, New York to Private Midwest Collection, 2011 Note: This painting is included in the catalogue raisonne of the work of Jasper Cropsey by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. In his 1880 book, Art in America, S. G. W. Benjamin wrote: “The extraordinary variety of the effects of American landscape is…shown by the gorgeousness of our autumnal foliage,” and stated that to paint “effects of sunset, or the scarlet and gold of an American forest in the dreamy days of Indian Summer” was no less absurd than to undertake “to paint the splendor of many-colored drapery in an Oriental crowd,” then “considered a legitimate subject for the artist who has a correct eye for color.” Jasper Cropsey was chief among the artists whom Benjamin saw as capable of seizing “these autumnal displays with fine feeling and excellent judgment,” and he extolled Cropsey’s paintings as “remarkable for their truth and artistic beauty.” Dedicated to the notion that the distinctiveness of the American landscape shone forth best when the wilderness was clothed in the brilliant colors of autumn, Cropsey painted fall scenery...

Jasper Francis Cropsey, oil on canvas, 1881, Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, 1823-1900), Study for "Sunset Over Lake Thrasemine", signed and dated lower right "J.F. Cropsey 1881",...

Famed Hudson River School painter and architect.