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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 21, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 48 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | MOUNTS ADAM AND EVE—HAYMAKING |
paintings
30.5 x 50.8 cm (12.01 x 20 in)
oil on canvas
signed J.F. Cropsey and dated 1883 lower left
Sold: Ortgies & Co., New York, March 20, 1885, lot 44 (as Mt. Adam and Eve, Hay Making)
David McCabe, Greenwich, Connecticut
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, by 1983
David S. Purvis, Weston, Connecticut
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1998
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2001
Amherst, Massachusetts, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Collegial Collectors: American Art from the Class of 1967, May 15-June 7, 1992, pp. 6-8, 21, illustrated (as dated 1882 [p. 8] and 1883 [p. 21])
Selling J.F. Cropsey’s Works, New York Times, March 21, 1885, p. 5 (as Mount Adam and Eve, Hay Making)↵Bruce W. Chambers, American Paintings III, New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, 1985, p. 24, illustrated↵Frederick Baekeland, Images of America: The Painters Eye, 1833-1925, Birmingham, Alabama, 1991, p. 42n4↵The Historical Society of the Township of Warwick, New York, 1999 Calendar, "July," illustrated (as Hay Making)↵Bruce Weber, American Paintings and Sculpture VIII, New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, 1999, pp. 48-49, illustrated↵Kenneth W. Maddox, "A Forgotten Mountain: Jasper F. Cropsey's Paintings of Sugar Loaf," Metropolitan Museum Journal 35 (2000), p. 236, note 26↵"Vistas Revisited: Landscapes in Oil and Life," The New York Times, May 27, 2001, p. 1, illustrated (as dated 1882)↵Kirk Johnson, "A Sight that Remains and Inspires: Landscapes of 19th Century Join Generations in Warwick," The New York Times, May 27, 2001, p. 29, illustrated p. 30 (as dated 1882)↵Michael Kimmelman, "Cropsey’s Seasonal Vistas a Steady Weave of Grace and Harmony," The New York Times, May 27, 2001, p. 30 (as dated 1882)
signed J.F. Cropsey and dated 1883 lower left↵oil on canvas↵12 by 20 inches↵(30.5 by 50.8 cm)
