A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y. (1843): Art, History and Details

A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y. (1843) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: A View from Bald Mountain, Orange County, N.Y.
• Date: 1843
• Creator attribution: Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900)
• Culture: America
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: pen and black ink, and brown wash heightened with white, over traces of graphite
• Dimensions: Sheet: 24.2 x 37.8 cm (9 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)
• Collection: DR - American 19th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1933.401

Collection credit

Gift of J. W. L. Jones

Further reading listed by the museum

• 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).

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.