Lot 48
  • 48

Jasper Francis Cropsey 1823 - 1900

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Jasper Francis Cropsey
  • Mounts Adam and Eve—Haymaking
  • signed J.F. Cropsey and dated 1883 lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 12 by 20 inches
  • (30.5 by 50.8 cm)

Provenance

Sold: Ortgies & Co., New York, March 20, 1885, lot 44 (as Mt. Adam and Eve, Hay Making)
David McCabe, Greenwich, Connecticut
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, by 1983
David S. Purvis, Weston, Connecticut
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1998
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2001

Exhibited

Amherst, Massachusetts, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Collegial Collectors: American Art from the Class of 1967, May 15-June 7, 1992, pp. 6-8, 21, illustrated (as dated 1882 [p. 8] and 1883 [p. 21])

Literature

"Selling J.F. Cropsey’s Works," New York Times, March 21, 1885, p. 5 (as Mount Adam and Eve, Hay Making)
Bruce W. Chambers, American Paintings III, New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, 1985, p. 24, illustrated
Frederick Baekeland, Images of America: The Painters Eye, 1833-1925, Birmingham, Alabama, 1991, p. 42n4
The Historical Society of the Township of Warwick, New York, 1999 Calendar, "July," illustrated (as Hay Making)
Bruce Weber, American Paintings and Sculpture VIII, New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, 1999, pp. 48-49, illustrated
Kenneth W. Maddox, "A Forgotten Mountain: Jasper F. Cropsey's Paintings of Sugar Loaf," Metropolitan Museum Journal 35 (2000), p. 236, note 26
"Vistas Revisited: Landscapes in Oil and Life," The New York Times, May 27, 2001, p. 1, illustrated (as dated 1882)
Kirk Johnson, "A Sight that Remains and Inspires: Landscapes of 19th Century Join Generations in Warwick," The New York Times, May 27, 2001, p. 29, illustrated p. 30 (as dated 1882)
Michael Kimmelman, "Cropsey’s Seasonal Vistas a Steady Weave of Grace and Harmony," The New York Times, May 27, 2001, p. 30 (as dated 1882)

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is wax-lined. There is frame abrasion at the edges. Under UV: there are a few scattered dots of inpainting in the sky, and 1 spot near the lower right corner, otherwise fine.
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