Autumn - On the Hudson River
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 151.8 x 274.9 cm (59 3/4 x 108 1/4 in.) framed: 200.7 x 321.3 x 21 cm (79 x 126 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
Accession Number
1963.9.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jasper Francis Cropsey · 1823–1900
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900) was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, the influential mid-nineteenth-century movement that celebrated the natural grandeur of the American continent in large, luminous canvases. Born on Staten Island, New York, Cropsey initially trained as an architect — a background that gave him a strong sense of spatial structure and formal...