id: 125058 accession number: 1946.494 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.494 updated: 2023-08-23 20:31:39.777000 The Clove - A Storm Scene in the Catskill Mountains, 1851. Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900). Oil on canvas; unframed: 152 x 120.2 cm (59 13/16 x 47 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Horace Kelley Art Foundation 1946.494 title: The Clove - A Storm Scene in the Catskill Mountains title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1851 creation date earliest: 1851 creation date latest: 1851 current location: creditline: Gift of the Horace Kelley Art Foundation copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 152 x 120.2 cm (59 13/16 x 47 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower center: J. F. Cropsey / 1851 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900 opening date: 1968-02-02T05:00:00 Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900. Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD (organizer) (February 2-March 3, 1968). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Tempests and Romantic Visionaries: Images of Storms in European and American Art, 1750-1950 opening date: 2006-04-20T00:00:00 Tempests and Romantic Visionaries: Images of Storms in European and American Art, 1750-1950. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (organizer) (April 20-August 13, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * New York, NY, National Academy of Design, (1851), no. 6 as The Cove.
College Park, MD, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Jasper Cropsey 1823-1900: A Retrospective View of America's Painter of Autumn (2 February - 3 March 1968), cat. no. 2, p. 17, 19, ill. p. 16.
Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Jasper F. Cropsey 1823-1900 (8 July - 16 August 1970); no. 17, p. 72-3, ill. p. 74; traveled to Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Poctor Institute (14 September - 25 October 1970); traveled to Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute (23 November 1970 - 3 January 1971).
Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Visions of Landscape: East and West (17 February - 21 March 1982), no cat.
Yonkers, NY, The Hudson River Museum, The Book of Nature: American Painters and the Natural Sublime (27 October 1983 - 4 January 1984), cat. p. 106, p. 17, ill. p. 18.
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art (4/20/2006 - 8/13/2006): "Tempests and Romantic Visionaries: Images of Storms in European and American Art, 1750-1950" --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In this dramatic portrayal of the American wilderness, wind and rain ravage the landscape as lightning flashes in the distance. Cropsey's dark colors and roughly handled paint create an ominous tone which emphasizes the overwhelming power of the storm. At the right, an Indian hunter crouches beside a tree and watches helplessly as the stag he just shot tumbles over the waterfall, reinforcing the theme of nature's superiority over man. The artist was a devout follower of Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole, whose poem "Storm in the Catskills" is believed to have inspired this painting. While often criticized for copying Cole's style, Cropsey chose to render a close-up view of this scene, a departure from Cole's more distant, romantic vistas. Cropsey's familiarity with Frederic Church's landscapes is also evident here; notice the similarity between the splintered tree in the foreground and Church's Storm in the Mountains (1969.52; also in this gallery). --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.494/1946.494_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.494/1946.494_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.494/1946.494_full.tif