View of Mt. Washington

1881

Jasper Francis Cropsey

Associated Names
Jasper Francis Cropsey

Painter, American, 1823 - 1900

This painting shows a landscape with tall, blue, snow-capped mountains in the distance. There are blue and purple clouds in the yellow sky. Closest to us is a tree-lined field covered in autumnal colors, including reds, oranges, yellows, and light greens in the trees and grass. Small white sheep graze on rolling hills leading to the mountains in the distance.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collection of the artist; by descent his family to his great-granddaughter, Barbara Newington [Mrs. John C. Newington], Greenwich, Connecticut; gift 18 November 1977 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.

1986

  • A New World: American Landscape Painting, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Gothenberg Art Museum, 18 September 1986 - 15 February 1987.

1993

  • Extended loan for use by the Ambassador to France, U.S. Embassy residence, Paris, 1993-1997.

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 293, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: J.F. Cropsey / 1881.

Wikidata ID

Q46630924

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