The Spirit of War
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 110.8 x 171.6 cm (43 5/8 x 67 9/16 in.) framed: 151.8 x 211.5 x 17.2 cm (59 3/4 x 83 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1978.12.1
About the Artist
Jasper Francis Cropsey
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...