# Catskill Creek

- By: Jasper Francis Cropsey (born Rossville, NY 1823-died Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 1900)
- Date: 1850
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 27 1/4 in. (47.1 x 69.1 cm.)
- Culture: New York
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5974)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6596c7c01c5868ed635278ef76bb8d06.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Jasper Francis Cropsey greatly admired the works of Thomas Cole, who was the first American painter to establish the country’s wilderness as an important subject for painting. In 1850, Cropsey stayed with Cole’s widow in the village of Catskill, where he visited the late artist’s studio and made several sketches of the landscape. (Myers, The Catskills, 1987) In this painting the windswept trees and dark tones of brown and orange evoke the aftermath of a passing storm.