Lake Wawayanda [Ask Us A Question] Title: Lake Wawayanda 1876 Artist: Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 - 1900) Original Size and Owner: Oil on canvas, 12 x 20 1/4 in. (30.5 x 51.3 cm ), Private collection Description: ln its glorification of the American autumn and in its overall luminist qualities, Lake Wawayanda is a quintessential example of Jasper Cropsey's mature style. The measured horizontal space, smooth facture, delicate tonalities, and cool, glowing light evoke the silence and tranquility characteristic of luminist landscapes. Lake Wawayanda ("Lake of the Winding Water") is actually part of Greenwood Lake, which straddles the New York-New Jersey border, approximately halfway between the New York cities of Hastings-on-Hudson and Port Jervis. Cropsey began his artistic association with these connected lakes in 1843, and continued to visit the area often; in 1869 he built a house and settled there until 1885. His house and its natural environs became a sustained and peaceful retreat from the market and exhibition pressures of New York City, where he spent the winters. The area held profound associations for him, and he painted Lake Greenwood/Wawayanda at least thirteen times. 1 The sense of serenity and contentment so evident in Oberlin's Lake Wawayanda may reflect positive events occurring in Cropsey's life during 1876. Not only did he exhibit three paintings at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia that year, but he was also--in his capacity as architect--chosen to design the stairways, waiting rooms, and platforms for the Sixth Avenue Elevated in New York City. The mood of the painting may also reflect a more general celebratory mood stemming from the nation's centennial activities. Populated by only a single animal swimming in the middle distance, Lake Wawayanda proclaims the spiritual beauty of the American eastern wilderness. Cropsey's vision is a romanticized one: by 1876, the eastern states were wilderness much more in myth than in reality, but the nation, still committed to the concept of Manifest Destiny, remained willing to believe in the divinity of its landscape. Cropsey was somewhat of an artistic chameleon, using the techniques and compositions of his American contemporaries as springboards for his own stylistic changes. His works of the 1840s and '50s have a distinctive affinity with the work of Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), while works of the 1860s are more reminiscent of the work of Frederic E. Church. The 1870s were stylistically inconsistent years for Cropsey, as can be readily seen by comparing the two paintings by the artist at Oberlin, Lake Wawayanda and Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli (AMAM inv. 04.1116), both dated 1876. The latter shows the influence of works by Cole, while the former evinces the work of John Frederick Kensett and Sanford R. Gifford (1823-1880). Several of Cropsey's most distinctive works of the 1870s are exceptionally luminous. One of these, the Lake Wawayanda at Amherst College, is an earlier version of the Oberlin painting. 2 While gossamer atmospheric effects suffuse all of Cropsey's luminist works of this period, only the Oberlin and the Amherst paintings are devoid of such picturesque elements as humans or foreground cows. During the 1880s and ¡®90s, Cropsey turned increasingly to relatively high-keyed watercolors, in which he seemed to not only reconcile the various styles he had explored in earlier decades but also produced a freer style that was more genuinely his own. Cropsey was one of the best-known painters of the second-generation Hudson River school, and his paintings were highly regarded by both American and English artists and critics during his lifetime. 3 Although his work may not be the most innovative, it is a supremely representative example of luminist painting, and--especially during the 1860s and ¡®70s--Cropsey was the painter par excellence of the American autumn. Media: Genuine 100% Hand Painted Oil Paintings On Canvas. Quality: Museum Quality, Brilliant Oil Painting Creation! This painting is availble in any other size. We just list standard size below. Our Guarantee: Highest Quality & Lowest Price! Note: We do not stretch or frame .... that is best done at your local discount frame store. It will be delivered in a roll tube to protect the quality. Price -19.95 USD Shipping Cost: $29.99 for 1st item, $14.99 for 2nd item. So the more you order, the more you save on Shipping & Handling cost! Ships within 2 weeks Lake Wawayanda - Size (12"x16") - 19.95USD Lake Wawayanda - Size (16"x20") - 28.95USD Lake Wawayanda - Size (20"x24") - 38.95USD Lake Wawayanda - Size (24"x36") - 68.95USD Lake Wawayanda - Size (30"x40") - 144.95USD Lake Wawayanda - Size (36"x48") - 198.95USD The More You Order, The Less You Pay!

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