Twilight on the Sawmill River, 1887
8⅞ x 18 inches (sight size)
Signed and dated lower right: J.F. Cropsey 1887
Provenance
The artist
Sale, Ortgies & Co., New York, New York, March 31, 1887, lot 13 (as Twilight, on the Saw-mill River)
[With] T.A. Wilmurt, New York, New York
Private collection
Exhibited
Galleries of the National Academy of Design, New York, New York, Twentieth Annual Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society, through February 26, 1887, no. 152
Literature
Twentieth Annual Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society (New York: American Watercolor Society, 1887), no. 152.
“The Water-Color Exhibition,” Mail and Express, 3.
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), 212, 245, 247.
Related Work
Saw Mill River, 1896, watercolor on paper, 10¾ x 18 inches, signed and dated lower right: J.F. Cropsey / 1896; Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
