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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.
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114142
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A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y.
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drawing
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114142
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drawing
title
A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y.
description
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.
date
1843
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q80006791
creators
2599
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 24.2 x 37.8 cm (9 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)
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America
accession
1933.401
Source extras
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pen and black ink, and brown wash heightened with white, over traces of graphite
tombstone
A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y., 1843. Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900). Pen and black ink, and brown wash heightened with white, over traces of graphite; sheet: 24.2 x 37.8 cm (9 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. W. L. Jones, 1933.401
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description
beige(1) wove paper
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DR - American 19th Century
inscriptions
inscription
Signed, lower right, in black ink: "A View from Bald Mountain/Orange County N.Y/J. F. C. Oct 3. 1843"
inscription
On verso, by artist, across center, in graphite: "A View from Bald Mountain with Long Pond in the distance/ Orange County N.Y. /Oct 3rd 1843 [year underlined]"
citations
citation
Prasse, Leona E. “A Drawing by Jaspar Francis Cropsey in the Museum Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 24, no. 6 (1937).
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p. 98–101
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Gift of J. W. L. Jones
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2026-05-29 05:59:55.121000
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114142
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DR - American 19th Century
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pen and black ink, and brown wash heightened with white, over traces of graphite
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male
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photo
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