VRA Core 4 Example 26: Landscape painting

Work record [refid 26]
agent	Jasper Francis Cropsey (American painter, 1823-1900)
culturalContext	American; British
date	1860 (creation)
description	This monumental view of the Hudson River Valley was painted from memory in the artist's London studio. Cropsey adopted a high vantage point, looking southeast toward the distant Hudson River and the flank of Storm King Mountain. A small stream leads from the foreground, where three hunters and their dogs gaze into the sunlight. All along the meandering tributary there are signs of man's peaceful coexistence with nature: a small log cabin, grazing sheep, children playing on a bridge, and cows standing placidly in the water. Here, man neither conquers nor is subservient to nature; both coexist harmoniously. In fact, the landscape is depicted as a ready arena for further agricultural expansion. Cropsey's painting is a celebration of American nationalism.
inscription	lower center: Autumn, -on the Hudson River / J. F Cropsey / London 1860
location	National Gallery of Art (Washington, District of Columbia, United States) 1963.9.1 [location note] Gift of the Avalon Foundation
material	oil paint on canvas
measurements	151.8 cm (height) x 274.9 cm (width, without frame)
relation
rights
source	Core 4 Sample Database (VCat) [source, description] National Gallery of Art, Washington [website]; http://www.nga.gov/home.htm (accessed 5/30/2009)
stateEdition
stylePeriod	Hudson River school; Nineteenth century
subject	agriculture; animals; domestic life; genre; landscapes; Hunting in art; Rivers; Hudson River; autumn foliage; trees; leaves; Fall
technique	oil painting (technique)
textref
title	Autumn - On the Hudson River [en, inscribed, preferred]
worktype	paintings (visual works); oil paintings (visual works)