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Artist:
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Jasper Francis Cropsey
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Title:
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Catskill Mountain House
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Date:
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1855
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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29 x 44 in. (73.66 x 111.76 cm) (canvas)
36 x 51 in. (91.44 x 129.54 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Mrs. Lillian Lawhead Rinderer in memory of her brother, William A. Lawhead, and the William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 323
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The Catskill Mountain House was a resort hotel built on South Mountain (elevation 2,200 feet) in rural New York State to accommodate a continuous stream of artists and tourists who began to frequent the location for its sweeping views of nature in its most rugged state. Jasper Cropsey first sketched the house in 1852 and made this painting, the final version of the scene, in 1855 for James Edgar, a businessman from Chicago.
Cropsey belonged to the second generation of Hudson River School artists, a mid-nineteenth-century group of American landscape painters working in the Hudson River valley and the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. Their depictions of the New World underscored the vastness of America, as well as the immensity of its then untapped natural resources.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Cropsey, Jasper Francis
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Nationality:
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American
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Life Dates:
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American, 1823 - 1900
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Date LR: [J. F. Cropsey 1855]
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Landscape.
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, , ,
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Accession #:
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31.47
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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