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Lake Wawayanda, 1881
5⅝ x 7⅜ inches
Signed and dated lower right: J. F. Cropsey / 1881.; inscribed lower left: [illegible] on the Wawayanda River
Provenance
John Morrin, New York, by 1973
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, 1973
Private collection, Pennsylvania, 1973
Sale, Sotheby’s Online, January 10–21, 2020, lot 10, from above
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York
Eric van Rooy, acquired from above, 2020
Estate of above
Sale, Bonhams, Marlborough, Massachusetts, April 25, 2024, lot 116, from above
Exhibited
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Miniature Exhibition,
December 9, 1978–February 29, 1979
Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, The American Landscape, January 24–February
18, 1995
Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania, Passages: Images of
Transition in 19th-Century American Landscape Painting, August 25–October 15, 1995
Literature
Anthony M. Speiser, ed., Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné, Works in Oil, Volume II: 1864-1884
(Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2016), 289, no. 1658.
Related Works
Related Works
Lake Wawayanda, Sussex County, New Jersey, 1870, oil on canvas, 24 x 44⅛ inches; New Britain
Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Lake Wawayanda, 1876, oil on canvas, 11½ × 19½ inches, signed and dated lower right: J. F.
Cropsey 1876; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Note
Lake Wawayanda is located in Sussex County, New Jersey, just south of the New York-New
Jersey border, and not far from Cropsey’s home, Aladdin, in Warwick, New York.
