Jasper Francis Cropsey

Morton C. Bradly, Arlington, Massachusetts (acquired by 1969)

The Putnam Foundation, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego (acquired as a gift from the above in 1978)

Christie's, New York, 29 November 2000, lot 44 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Morton C. Bradley, San Diego 1969, no. XII

William S. Talbot, Jasper F. Cropsey 1823-1900, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, New York 1972, no. 240, fig. 229, pp. 249, 250 and 479, illustrated (titled Autumn Lake)

Timken Museum of Art Gallery Guide: European Paintings, American Paintings and Russian Icons in the Collection of the Putnam Foundation, San Diego 1991, p. 31, illustrated

Timken Museum of Art: European Works of Art, American Paintings and Russian Icons in the Putnam Foundation Collection, San Diego 1996, p. 237, illustrated in color

John Goodrich, "A Triple-Take on the Hudson River," New York Sun, 23 August 2007, p. 17

Kenneth W. Maddox and Anthony M. Speiser, Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné, Works in Oil, 1885-1900, Watercolors, 1842-1900, vol. III, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 2019, no. 2045, p. 87

Canton, Ohio, Canton Museum of Art, Timken Company Centennial Exhibition, January - July 1999

Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University and Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, A Focused Collection: The Hudson River School, April - October 2007, no. 5, pp. 5, 16-17, illustrated in color

Jasper Francis Cropsey’s 1891 Fall Landscape is a rich, brooding work. Its trees are wind-battered, the sun breaking through with cold, wan light that bisects the image and foreshadows the incoming winter. Cropsey has employed his characteristic reds and oranges, though the chilled climate dims their fire, rendering them contemplative. Two plumes of smoke rise from distant cottages, and the cattle curl to the ground for warmth. Fall Landscape depicts the valley decked in brilliant color and pondering its own transience.