Hudson River Brick Piers
Medium
graphite and watercolor on brown wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 15.7 × 10.9 cm (6 3/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection
Accession Number
1979.20.26
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jasper Francis Cropsey · 1823–1900
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900) was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, the influential mid-nineteenth-century movement that celebrated the natural grandeur of the American continent in large, luminous canvases. Born on Staten Island, New York, Cropsey initially trained as an architect — a background that gave him a strong sense of spatial structure and formal...