John William Casilear

American, 1811 - 1893

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John William Casilear, San Remo, 1888, graphite and pen and black ink on wove paper, John Davis Hatch Collection, 1984.7.23

San Remo

John William Casilear · 1888 · graphite and pen and black ink on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1984.7.23

John William Casilear, Hudson Highlands, 1860s, graphite with touches of white heightening on laid paper, John Davis Hatch Collection, Avalon Fund, 1981.4.1

Hudson Highlands

John William Casilear · 1860s · graphite with touches of white heightening on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1981.4.1

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Autograph Etchings by American Artists

John Whetten Ehninger, Asher Brown Durand, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, John Frederick Kensett, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, John William Casilear, Eastman Johnson, Sanford Robinson Gifford, George Cochran Lambdin, George Henry Boughton, William Parsons Winchester Dana, Louis Rémy Mignot, Peter C. Duchochois, W. A. Townsend & Company · 1859 · bound volume with twelve cliché-verre on albumen paper after various artists ·  Accession ID  2018.44.73

A lake stretches from a spit of land in the lower left corner of this horizontal painting to hills and mountains that rise precipitously on the far bank in this hazy landscape. A dirt path winds through the grassy area between boulders and trees in the lower left corner. Tiny in scale, a person wearing a brown brimmed hat, a tan-colored jacket, and darker pants sits on a rock facing the water. A red object, perhaps a bag or portfolio, lies next to him, and he holds a rectangular object, perhaps a paint palette or sketchbook. Sunlight slices through the trees, low to the ground, to highlight the upper surfaces of the grass and stones while throwing the far side, facing the lake, into deep shadow. A person wearing a red jacket or shirt and a dark hat rows a canoe on the placid, muted blue lake. Sunlight warms the left-facing sides of the grassy, tree-dotted hills on the lake’s far shore, Taller, craggier mountains are smoky plum purple against a hazy, watery blue sky. The artist’s conjoined initials, “JWC,” are painted with white in the lower center of the canvas, as is the date, “57.”
John William Casilear, View on Lake George, 1857, oil on canvas, Gift of Frederick Sturges, Jr., 1978.6.1

View on Lake George

John William Casilear · 1857 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1978.6.1

John William Casilear, Birch Boughs, Catskill Mountains, 1856, graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund), 2015.19.586

Birch Boughs, Catskill Mountains

John William Casilear · 1856 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.586

This painting depicts a body of water surrounded by mountains and dotted with small islands. At the bottom of the image is a green area with several tall trees and a small dirt path. Beyond this area, a hill slopes down to the water below. The water is painted in light blue and gray tones, and the mountains beyond the water are painted in light greens and blues. The sky above the scene is full of puffy white clouds.
John William Casilear, Lake George, after 1851, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Josephine E. Harrison), 2014.136.120

Lake George

John William Casilear · after 1851 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.120

John William Casilear, Mountain Landscape, late 19th century, graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association), 2015.19.584

Mountain Landscape

John William Casilear · late 19th century · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.584

John William Casilear, Lake of Brienz, late 19th century, graphite with gouache on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund), 2015.19.585

Lake of Brienz

John William Casilear · late 19th century · graphite with gouache on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.585

John William Casilear, North from Storm King, 1850s, graphite heightened with white on light green wove paper, John Davis Hatch Collection, Avalon Fund, 1981.4.6

North from Storm King

John William Casilear · 1850s · graphite heightened with white on light green wove paper ·  Accession ID  1981.4.6

John William Casilear, Boppart, 1842, graphite on gray wove paper, Gift of Paul Magriel, 1980.50.1

Boppart

John William Casilear · 1842 · graphite on gray wove paper ·  Accession ID  1980.50.1

Bibliography

1947

  • Sears, Clara Endicott. Highlights Among the Hudson River Artists. Boston, 1947: 109-113.

1980

  • Novak, Barbara, and Annette Blaugrund, eds. Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings From The National Academy of Design. New York, 1980: 53-56.

1985

  • Keyes, Donald D. "John W. Casilear: A Series of Drawings of the New Hampshire White Mountains." Record of The Art Museum Princeton University 44 (1985): 15-23.

1987

  • American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. Intro John K. Howat. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987: 7, 12, 33, 52, 53, 59, 61, 62, 86, 89, 103, 118, 141-144, 149, 179, 180, 269, 307.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 51.