LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

12.01 in. (30.50 cm.) (height) by 20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed J.F. Cropsey and dated 1877 (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, Alexander Gallery, . Jasper F. Cropsey: An Exhibition of His Works , February-March 1979. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, . Exhibition: Hudson River School , April-July 1979. New York, Alexander Gallery, . Landscapes of the Hudson River: First Public Exhibition of a Private Collection , November 1979. University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, . All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School on Loan from a Friend of the Museum of Art , January-March 1981, no. 16, pp. 1, 7, 8, 19, 62, 123, illustrated pp. 26, 63. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, . The American Landscape Tradition , November 1982-January 1983. Newark, Delaware, University Gallery, University of Delaware, . An Intimate View: Hudson River Landscapes from a Private Collection , April-May 1985. Ithaca, New York, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, . The American Landscape , January-February 1995. Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; New York, The National Academy, . All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, August 1997-September 1999, pp. 8, 10, 54, cover illustration, illustrated p. 10. Garrison, New York, Boscobel House and Gardens, . "The Glorious Scenery Must Ever Excite": Nineteenth-Century American Paintings of the Hudson Highlands , July-October 2008, pp. 22, 27. Catskill, New York, The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, . River Views on the Hudson River , May-October 2009, p. 6, back cover illustration

Literature:

Marcia Briggs Wallace, "Jasper F. Cropsey," . Arts Magazine , vol. 53, May 1979, p. 14, illustrated (as . Sunset over West Point ). John K. Howat, "Hudson River Celebrations," . Antiques and Fine Art Magazine , vol. 9, Summer 2009, pp. 126-128, illustrated. Elizabeth B. Jacks, "River Views of the Hudson River School," . American Art Review , vol. 21, July-August 2009, p. 75, illustrated. Kenneth W. Maddox and Anthony M. Speiser, . Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné, Works in Oil 1864-1884 , vol. II, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 2016, no. 1467, p. 243

Provenance:

Morston Constantine Ream, New York (the artist). Westerly Committee, by 1970. [With]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1970. Alexander Gallery, New York, by 1979. Chapellier Galleries, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, by 1980