CROPSEY, JASPER FRANCIS

1823–1900, American artist, b. Staten Island, N.Y. Trained as an architect, Cropsey designed two churches in Staten Island and several stations on the Sixth Ave. elevated railway in Manhattan (1876). A member of the Hudson River school of painters, he was a founder of the American Water Color Society and is particularly noted for his autumn landscapes and Civil War scenes.

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Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux
Book by Francis R. Kowsky; Oxford University Press, 1998
...Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux FRANCIS R. KOWSKY NewYork Oxford Oxford University...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kowsky, Francis R., 1943- Country, park, and city: the architecture and life of Calvert Vaux / Francis R. Kowsky p. cm. Includes bibliographical...
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American Painting, History and Interpretation
Book by Virgil Barker; Bonanza Books, 1950
Subjects: Painting--United States--History
...Wil liam McDougall Hart. James McDougall Hart. Jasper Francis Cropsey. Worthington Whittredge. Regis Francois Gignoux...61. VIEW OF THE KAATERSKILL HOUSE by JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY 29 O 44: 1855 Courtesy of The Minneapolis Institute...
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History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
Book by Eliot Clark; Columbia University Press, 1954
Subjects: National Academy Of Design (U.S.)
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Index to Reproductions of American Paintings: A Guide to Pictures Occurring in More Than Eight Hundred Books
Book by Isabel Stevenson Monro, Kate M. Monro; H. W. Wilson, 1948
Subjects: Painters--United States, Painting, American
...California Palace of the Legion of honor , San Francisco. See CSFP Carnegie corp. Cat...Priv. print. 1916 Clark. J. Francis Murphy -- Clark, Eliot Candee . J. Francis Murphy . N.Y., Priv. print. 1926 American...
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New York City Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to the Five Boroughs of the Metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond
Book by Federal Writers' Project (N.Y.); Random House, 1939
...Celebration in Chinatown nfd Feast Day Italian of St. Francis de Sales in E. 12th St. between 2d and 3d Aves. nfd...Society Concert Season opens, Carnegie Hall nfd St. Francis of Assisi Festival in 38th St. between 8th and 9th Aves...
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journal articles on: Cropsey Jasper Francis  - 2 results

 
 
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I Hear America Singing: The Arts Will Flower without the NEA
Journal article by William Craig Rice; Policy Review, 1997
Subjects: Federal aid to the arts--Social aspects, United States. National Endowment for the Arts--Social aspects
...Barbara E. Newington recently established the Newington-Cropsey Foundation on the site of her great-grandfather Jasper Francis Cropseys restored art studio. The foundation exhibits Hudson River School and new figurative painters, operates an atelier...
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Privatization and the Law and Economics of Political Advocacy
Journal article by Alexander Volokh; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 60, 2008
Subjects: Law and economics (Jurisprudence)--Political aspects, Law and economics--Political aspects, Privatization (Business)--Political aspects, Privatization--Political aspects
...public law enforcement."). (23.) See Proposition 65 and State Rights Under Attack, SEEDS OF CHANGE--E-NEWS (As You Sow, San Francisco, Cal.), Summer 2006, http://www.asyousow.org/news/AYS_enews06Q3.html; Melvyn I. Weiss Elizabeth A. Berney, Restoring Investor...


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Nature's Palette: The Landscapes of Jasper Francis Cropsey
Magazine article by Pamela Hellwege; School Arts, Vol. 91, February 1992
Subjects: Hudson River school of landscape painting--Study and teaching, Landscape painters--Technique, Landscape painting--Study and teaching
...palette: the landscapes of Jasper Francis Cropsey. by Pamela Hellwege...Thoreau wrote about it and Jasper Francis Cropsey painted it -- autumn in all...hand of American painter Jasper Francis Cropsey 1823-1900. In Piermont...
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Books, Arts & Manners: God & His Enemies
Magazine article by Dennis Prager, Jonathan Foreman, Florence King, Anthony Lejeune, John Simon; National Review, Vol. 51, March 22, 1999
Subjects: 8MM (Motion picture), America's Real War (Book), Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, George III: A Personal History (Book), Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s (Book), Message in a Bottle (Motion picture), Single & Single (Book)
...with 30 canvases of one of the foundations namesakes, Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), a late-blooming artist of the Hudson...walls that I had no alternative but to concentrate. Cropsey painted a lot in the Hudson River Valley, but the...


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America's Spirit; Artists Render U.S. Heroes, Nature in Patriotic Hues
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 4, 2003
...American artists of the Hudson Valley School, the 19th-century landscape artists such as Frederic Edwin Church and Jasper Francis Cropsey, whose massive works gave East Coast urban Americans their first glimpses of the grandeur of the great wilderness...


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Cropsey, Jasper Francis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CROPSEY, JASPER FRANCIS 1823 1900, American artist, b. Staten Island, N.Y. Trained as an architect, Cropsey designed two churches in Staten Island and several stations on the Sixth...


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