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The Hudson River School in Focus: Property from the Friedman Collection

Jasper Francis Cropsey

On the Susquehanna River

Lot Closed

January 20, 07:16 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Hudson River School in Focus: Property from the Friedman Collection

Jasper Francis Cropsey

1823 - 1900

On the Susquehanna River


signed J.F. Cropsey and dated 1880. (lower right)

oil on canvas

12 by 22 ¼ in.

30.5 by 56.5 cm.

Executed in 1880.

Potter Estate, Saginaw, Michigan

M.M. Bagg

Mrs. L.S. Schafer, Knightstown, Indiana

Newhouse Galleries, New York (acquired by 1969)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired 1969)

Richard Green, London

Vivian and Meyer Potamkin, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in 1972)

Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 2003, lot 103 (consigned by the above)

Hollis Taggart, New York

Questroyal Fine Art, New York

Acquired from the above in December 2003 by the present owner

Cleveland Museum of Art; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Jasper F. Cropsey 1823-1900, July 1970 - January 1971, no. 71, pp. 58, 104 and 105, illustrated (titled Susquehanna River)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200ᵗʰ Anniversary (From the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin), November 1972 - January 1973, no. 31, pp. 8 and 51, illustrated

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, American Art from the Collection of Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin, June - October 1989, p. 9 (titled Susquehanna River)

Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University and Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, A Focused Collection: The Hudson River School, April - October 2007, no. 4, pp. 4, 5, 14, 15 and 16, illustrated in color (on the cover)

William S. Talbot, Jasper F. Cropsey 1823-1900, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, New York 1972, no. 207, fig. 166, pp. 205, 463 and 464, illustrated (titled Autumn Lake)

Amy Ellis, "Autumn on the Susquehanna, 1879," in American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum, vol. I, New Haven 1996, p. 282 (titled Susquehanna River)

Kenneth W. Maddox and Anthony M. Speiser, Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné, Works in Oil, 1864-1884, vol. II, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 2016, no. 1633, p. 282, illustrated in color