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A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y.
Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900)
1843
- Medium
- pen and black ink, and brown wash heightened with white, over traces of graphite
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.2 x 37.8 cm (9 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of J. W. L. Jones
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Cropsey practiced architecture but painted in his spare time, exhibiting a landscape painting to favorable reviews at the National of Design, New York, in 1843. This view of Orange County, New York, is one of Cropsey’s earliest known works. Commanding trees and rocks in the foreground are rapidly indicated, while carefully rendered topographical details in the distant landscape reveal greater attention to nature’s complexity and expanse. This drawing provided the basis for an oil painting of 1845, View of Greenwood Lake, New Jersey. Cropsey became a leading artist of the Hudson River school in the 1840s and 1850s.
