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Cropsey's Paintings of the "Fog Company" and the Industrial Riverside of Hastings-on-Hudson (2008)

Kenneth W. Maddox (Author)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 34
Issue: 1/2
Pages: 25-39

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41473704

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: THEME ISSUE: IA IN ART
Language: English

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Cultural landscapes Industry Hudson River School of landscape painting New York (State) Technology and art Artists Industrial archaeology Art of Industry 19th century Jasper F. Cropsey

Jasper F. Cropsey (1823-1900) is known today primarily for his bucolic scenes of America's autumnal foliage. He was a leading member of the Hudson River School of painters who celebrated the nineteenth-century American landscape with romantic portrayals of wilderness and pastoral vistas. Yet in 1885, when the artist was forced for economic reasons to relocate from New York City to Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York, his first paintings were of the village's industry. At the time the artist was frequently being accused by hostile critics—with some justification—of producing landscapes that were becoming increasingly repetitious, a monotonous reworking of the same old subjects. The variety of docks and manufacturing along the Hastings waterfront and in the adjacent glen inspired Cropsey to attempt a series of paintings on an entirely new theme. While many are not irayor works, they reveal how an artist, who primarily painted pure landscapes, was also fascinated with physical structures reflecting the increasing industrialization of the country. Although almost every Hudson River School artist dealt with an industrial subject at some point in his career; it is only in Cropsey's depictions of the Hastings waterfront that one finds a substantial body of work depicting manufacturing activity.

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Article Betsy Fahlman (2008) Industrial Archeology and Art: Negotiating the Past and Present. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 5-8). unapi

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