The Spirit of War
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 110.8 x 171.6 cm (43 5/8 x 67 9/16 in.) framed: 151.8 x 211.5 x 17.2 cm (59 3/4 x 83 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1978.12.1
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...