1868
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Niagara Falls in Winter is a 1868 oil by Jasper Francis Cropsey, a Hudson River School Movement work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a frozen Niagara Falls: jagged ice, mist turned to frost, and a pale winter sky. Cropsey painted this in his New York studio, using sketches he made on-site years earlier. The ice isn’t just white—look close and you’ll spot blues, grays, even hints of pink where the light catches it. If you like how he builds winter light, try glazing—layering thin, transparent paint to create depth.
Judge Nathaniel and Laura Davidson Sears; Elgin Academy, Elgin, IL, by 1967; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth–Century American Paintings: a Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966; Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19–June 5, 1966; Muscatine, Iowa, Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum, July 24–Oct. 2, 1966; Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Nov. 30, 1966–Jan. 8, 1967, no cat. Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, 250 Years of American Art, Art Resources Traveler exhibition, May 1968–July 1969, cat. np. Cleveland Museum of Art, Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823–1900 July 8–Aug. 16, 1970; Utica, New…
Magazine Antiques, "American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago," (November 1973), 895–905. William S. Talbot, "Jasper Cropsey 1823–1900," (PhD. diss. New York University, 1972) p. 439.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Jasper Francis Cropsey was an American architect and artist. He is best known for his Hudson River School landscape paintings.
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