Landscape with Cows near Warwick, New York, 1885

Provenance

The artist

Major Orlando J. Smith, Dobbs Ferry, New York, acquired from above

Mabel Smith, by descent from above

Eileen Melvin, by descent from above

Private estate, Southbury, Connecticut, by descent from above

[With] Spanierman Gallery, New York, New York, 2013–14

Exhibited

Spanierman Gallery, New York, New York, Landscapes: 1880s to the Present, March 21–April 20, 2013

Literature

Lisa N. Peters, Landscapes: 1880s to the Present (New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2013), n. p.

Anthony M. Speiser, ed., Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné, Works in Oil Volume III: 1885-1900, Watercolors: 1842-1900 (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2019), 7–8, 24, 305.

Related Work

Hudson River Landscape with Couple, 1886, oil on canvas, 14⅛ x 26⅛ inches, signed and dated lower left: J. F. Cropsey 1886; Private collection, as reproduced in Anthony M. Speiser, ed., Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné, Works in Oil Volume III: 1885-1900, Watercolors: 1842-1900 (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2019), 24.

Note:

This painting, along with the related work, was supposedly painted for a niche in Orlando J. Smith’s library.