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Jasper F. Cropsey: Watercolors

 
June 29 - July 31st
monday-friday from 1-5pm
no appointment necessary
 

from the exhibition catalogue's Foreward:

 

During the past few decades a renewed interest and examination of Jasper Francis Cropsey’s work have cemented his status as a leading member of the Hudson River School of Painting. Cropsey’s career, like the other Hudson River School painters focused on oil paintings depicting panoramic views of America, interspersed with some European subjects and alleghorical paintings. Cropsey was one of the more prolific painters of his time, completing approximately 2,000 oil paintings in his career.

 

In 1985, the National Academy of Design organized an exhibit of Cropsey watercolors, bringing to light a largely unkown aspect of his art. In the years since the NAD exhibition, many exhibits have featured Cropsey’s oil paintings and an exhibit here at the Newington-Cropsey Foundation highlighted his architectural and design efforts. Lest they be forgotten again, we feel it is important at this time to revisit Cropsey’s watercolors as they remain an important part of his artistic career as well as his life, in particular his time spent in Hastings-on-Hudson, where most of his watercolors were created during the last 15 years of his life. The watercolors of Hastings and the surrounding area lend a somewhat more personal view of the artist. Many of these works are views from Cropsey’s home, Ever Rest. From the vantage point of Ever Rest, Cropsey painted glimpes of the Hudson River, the Hastings waterfront, and the ravine on the adjacent property, which is now the home of the Newington-Cropsey Foundation. As seen in this exhibit and catalogue, Cropsey also revisited subjects he had painted or sketched years before, capturing these views on a smaller scale in watercolor.

 

Almost all of the watercolors in this exhibition are in the Newington-Cropsey collection. I have tried to choose those that reflect his later finished exhibition works but also some which demonstrate his earlier use of watercolor in sketches and studies, in addition to examples of his architectural and design renderings.

 

Adelia Rasines

Executive Director, NCF Summer 2009

 

 
Lake George, 1896, Jasper F. Cropsey, watercolor on paper
 
On the Docks, Hastings, 1886, Jasper F. Cropsey, watercolor on paper
 

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