Word: cropsey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presents the great river from New York Harbor to the Adirondacks in 102 color scenes, most of them reproductions of famous or forgotten painters of the 19th century, when the Hudson River School was flourishing. Many names are predictable: Thomas Cole, George Inness, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Doughty. So are the scenes of shad fishermen, Hudson River sloops, the Palisades, West Point, etc. Their quality naturally varies, not merely as to the paintings but to reproduction; yet the overall range in style, technique and composition is remarkable. Perfectly suited to readers who know the Hudson...
...Americans pushed westward, and it reached a climax in Albert Bierstadt's enormous canvas of the Rocky Mountains. Almost Wagnerian in scope-soaring peaks, resounding cataracts, blazing shafts of sunlight-it shows nature completely overwhelming insignificant man. On a lesser note, such painters as Jasper Francis Cropsey saw nature as a metaphor for God and respectfully depicted people as tiny objects in glorious settings...