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Philip & Nancy Anschutz Gallery
Brimstone and Sugar Loaf Mountains from Warwick,
1872
Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1823–1900; born Rossville, NY; died Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
y1983-11
Around 1860, Cropsey began producing the colorful portrayals of fall foliage that earned him the sobriquet “America’s painter of autumn.” Enthusiastically received, the paintings added another dimension to the celebration of the nation’s natural splendor advanced by the artist and
fellow members of the Hudson River School. Cropsey used the proceeds from the sale of his art to design and build Aladdin, an elaborate villa and studio in rural Warwick, New York. The vista depicted here was inspired by the view from that building, although the artist took liberties with the foreground topography. The particular focus on the landscape as modified by sun and atmosphere increasingly typified Cropsey’s work and became a central element of his mature compositions.
fellow members of the Hudson River School. Cropsey used the proceeds from the sale of his art to design and build Aladdin, an elaborate villa and studio in rural Warwick, New York. The vista depicted here was inspired by the view from that building, although the artist took liberties with the foreground topography. The particular focus on the landscape as modified by sun and atmosphere increasingly typified Cropsey’s work and became a central element of his mature compositions.
Information
Title
Brimstone and Sugar Loaf Mountains from Warwick
Dates
1872
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30.6 × 51.3 cm (12 1/16 × 20 3/16 in.)
frame: 57.8 × 78.3 × 8.5 cm (22 3/4 × 30 13/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Newington Cropsey Foundation
Object Number
y1983-11
Place Depicted
United States, New York, Warkwick
Signatures
Signed and dated lower right: J.F. Cropsey 1872
Culture
Type
Subject
Ephraim Miller, White Plains (NY); inherited by his granddaughter, Mrs. Emma Miller Kimball, White Plains (NY); [Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York (NY), October 22, 1969, n. 35]; [Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York (NY), January 24-26, 1974, n. 585]; Terry de Lapp, Los Angeles (CA); Steve Martin collection, Los Angeles (CA); [Christie’s, New York (NY), May 23, 1979, n. 51]; acquired by the Newington Cropsey Foundation at the above sale; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1983 [1]. [1] The provenance of the painting is reconstructed in Jasper Francis Cropsey. Catalogue raisonné. Works in oil. Volume two: 1864-1884, ed. by Anthony M. Speiser, 2016, p. 127, n. 1097.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1983," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 43, no. 1 (1984): p. 18-42., p. 36
- Barbara T. Ross, "Nineteenth-century American landscape paintings: nine recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 44, no. 1 (1985): p. 4-13., p. 13, fig. 18
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 248 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 178, cat. no. 42; p. 179 (illus.); p. 317, checklist no. 440
