Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 10 Jasper Cropsey Questions: |
Jasper Cropsey and the Hudson River School
Jasper Cropsey was part of a group of landscape artists known as the Hudson River School. Although their styles varied, they all painted large, expansive views of nature in the Hudson River valley. The Hudson River School artists were largely responsible for the development of landscape as a subject in American art during the 19th century. Increased production of popular PRINTS and the use of color illustrations in magazines made their landscape images available to many Americans.
The Catskill Mountain range in New York was an especially
popular subject for the Hudson River School painters, both
because of its natural beauty and because it was relatively
easy to reach from eastern cities. Few easterners had
ventured west to the frontier, which by then extended to the
Mississippi River. Consequently, the mysterious forests of
the Catskills awed and fascinated many.
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