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Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)
- View of Sugar Loaf Mountain from the Artist's Home

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Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)
View of Sugar Loaf Mountain from the Artist's Home
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • $70,900
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    $80,000 - $120,000

Sale Information

Sale 2171
Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
20 May 2009
New York, Rockefeller Plaza





Lot Description

Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)
View of Sugar Loaf Mountain from the Artist's Home
signed and dated 'J.F Cropsey 1875' (lower center)
oil on canvas
14¼ x 24¼ in. (36.2 x 61.6 cm.)

Pre-Lot Text

Property of the Montclair Art Museum, sold to benefit the Acquisition Endowment Fund

Provenance

Rabin-Krueger Gallery, Newark, New Jersey.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Golt.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1961.

Literature

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Montclair in Manhattan, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1961, p. 30.
Montclair Art Museum, The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, 1977, pp. 67, 212, illustrated (as Landscape).
Montclair Art Museum, Three Hundred Years of American Painting: The Montclair Art Museum Collection, New York, 1989, pp. 30, 140, no. 100, illustrated (as Landscape).
K.W. Maddox, "A Forgotten Mountain: Jasper F. Cropsey's Paintings of Sugar Loaf," The Metropolitan Museum Journal, 2000, vol. 35, pp. 232, 234, illustrated (as Landscape).
J. Bookbinder, In a Perfect World: Bermuda in the Context of American Landscape Painting, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002, pp. 11, 53.

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Montclair In Manhattan, November 7-25, 1961.
Huntington, New York, The Heckscher Museum, Land of Whitman, 1982.
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, A Museum Collects: The 19th Century, 1989.
Boston, Massachusetts, Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, In a Perfect World: Bermuda in the Context of American Landscape Painting, May 16-September 15, 2002.

Lot Notes

This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works of Jasper Francis Cropsey by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

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