The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y.

1843

Jasper F. Cropsey

(American, 1823–1900)
America
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.)
Gift of J. W. L. Jones 1933.401
Location: Not on view

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.
  • ?–?
    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
  • Prasse, Leona E. “A Drawing by Jaspar Francis Cropsey in the Museum Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 24, no. 6 (1937). p. 98–101 www.jstor.org
  • Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
    American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).
    Artists of the Hudson River School. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown, NY (organizer) (October 1-31, 1958).
    Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).
  • {{cite web|title=A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y.|url=false|author=Jasper F. Cropsey|year=1843|access-date=24 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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