Niagara Falls in Winter

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1868

Jasper Francis Cropsey
American, 1823–1900

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Jasper Francis Cropsey
Title: Niagara Falls in Winter
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1868
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, l.r.: "J.F. Cropsey 1863"
Dimensions: 30.5 × 50.8 cm (12 × 20 in.)
Credit Line: A. A. McKay Fund
Reference Number: 1967.181
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Magazine Antiques, “American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago,” (November 1973), 895–905.
William S. Talbot, “Jasper Cropsey 1823–1900,” (PhD. diss. New York University, 1972) p. 439.

Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth–Century American Paintings: a Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966; Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19–June 5, 1966; Muscatine, Iowa, Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum, July 24–Oct. 2, 1966; Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Nov. 30, 1966–Jan. 8, 1967, no cat.
Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, 250 Years of American Art, Art Resources Traveler exhibition, May 1968–July 1969, cat. np.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823–1900 July 8–Aug. 16, 1970; Utica, New York, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Sept. 14–Oct. 25, 1970; Washington DC, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Nov. 23, 1970–Jan. 3, 1971, cat. 41.
Chicago, the Arts Club, The American Landscape, Nov. 14–Dec. 29, 1973, cat. 15.
Buffalo, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697–1901, July 13–Sept. 1, 1985; Washington D.C>, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Sept. 21–Nov. 24, 1985; New York Historical Society, Jan. 22–Apr. 27, 1985, cat. 57.
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, American Heroism Aug. 6–Oct. 14, 2001, cat. 11.

Judge Nathaniel and Laura Davidson Sears; Elgin Academy, Elgin, IL, by 1967; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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