View of Mt. Washington
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 24 x 44 1/8 in. (60.96 x 112.08 cm) framed: 31 7/8 x 51 3/4 in. (80.96 x 131.45 cm)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. & Mrs. John C. Newington)
Accession Number
2015.19.157
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...