Jasper Francis Cropsey was born in the agricultural Staten Island. As usual in many farmer families, Jasper had to help with the farm during the busy summer months, and only visited the school in the winter. Overall, of weak constitution and often ill for him, the continuation of family business was excluded.
Cropsey moved to New York and he became an architect. The fulfillment of architectural projects did not materialize and his designs were framed on the edge of landscape sketches. His employer encouraged Jasper to try watercolor and oil.
For the first landscape depictions, Cropsey chose the landscape of New Jersey and Greenwood Lake. Especially the Greenwood Lake appears as a recurrent motif in his works. As an artist, he pursued the goal of depicting American nature in its uniqueness. Cropsey was particularly interested in the depiction of the atmosphere, weather and clouds and the changing seasons. His love of nature made him a major representative of the Hudson River School.
His most famous work Fall - On the Hudson River dedicated to the favorite season of Jasper Francis Cropsey whose lush color scheme reflects the spectrum of the Indian Summer.
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 1876 - (MeisterDrucke-162325).jpg "Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli (Early Morning at Paestum), 1876 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Sunset after a Storm in the Catskill Mountains, c.1860 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Autumn Landscape, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Orange County, New York, c.1870-75 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Conversation at the Fence, 1873 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "The Old Home, Warwick, New York, 1884 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Winter on Ravensdale Road, Hastings-on-Hudson, 1890 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Hazy Afternoon - Autumn, 1873 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Lake George, 1871 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Winter in Switzerland, 1860 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Winter on Ravensdale Road, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 1890 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Autumn on the Wawayanda, 1877 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "View of the Hudson near Hastings, 1895 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Autumn Landscape, Saugerties, 1886 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Apple Blossom Time, 1899 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "The Quiet Valley, 1856 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "On the Wawayanda Lake, New Jersey by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Autumn by the Brook, 1855 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Indian Summer on the Delaware River, 1882 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Early Evening Landscape by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Sunset at Etretat, 1894 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "The Saw Mill River, by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Autumn Landscape, 1882 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Sunset over Lake Thrasemine, 1887 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "American Falls, Niagara, c.1855 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Catskill Mountain House, 1855 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Shot Tower, 1845 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Summer Afternoon on the Hudson, 1852 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Autumn Splendor, 1896 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "The Isle of Capri, 1893 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "View of the Hudson, 1883 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "On the Wawayanda Lake, New Jersey, 1873 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Rowing out of a Cove, 1878 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Riverscape - Early Autumn, 1888 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "Greenwood Lake at Twilight, 1873 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
.jpg "On the Ramapo River, 1888 by Jasper Francis Cropsey")
