Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011426A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y.
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in black ink: "A View from Bald Mountain/Orange County N.Y/J. F. C. Oct 3. 1843"; 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]"
Provenance
?–?: Collection of William P. Wright, Weehawken, NJ ?–1933: Mr. J.W.L. Jones, Tiffin, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH December 28, 1933–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). Artists of the Hudson River School. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown, NY (organizer) (October 1-31, 1958). American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900)
- Date
- 1843
- Medium
- pen and black ink, and brown wash heightened with white, over traces of graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.2 x 37.8 cm (9 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of J. W. L. Jones
- Accession no.
- 1933.401
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