View of Sugar Loaf Mountain, 1895

Provenance

Private collection, New York, New York

This painting was approved as an addition to the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation.

Related Works 

Autumn Landscape, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Orange County, New York, ca. 1870–75, oil on canvas, 28½ x 35½ inches; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.

Wickham Pond and Sugar Loaf Mountain, Orange County, 1876, oil on canvas, 32⅛ x 40 inches; New York Historical Society, New York, New York.

Wickham Lake, October 26, 1978, pencil on tan paper, 7½ x 11⅞ inches; The Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

Note

Previously titled Greenwood Lake, this painting features a view of Sugar Loaf Mountain in Orange County, New York, overlooking Wickham Pond, as suggested by Anthony Speiser, scholar and Director of the Newington-Cropsey Foundation. Cropsey lived just two miles south of Sugar Loaf, in Warwick, New York, and painted this local site for over 15 years. Cropsey’s paintings of Sugar Loaf Mountain have often been misidentified due to Cropsey’s exaggeration of the peak’s height and roundness, but, in fact, he painted this view at least a dozen times. Cropsey also accentuated the mountain’s rough, jagged surface, which is today covered in green foliage.