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Article: American landscape pairs of the 1850s.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
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In December 1851 the Bulletin of the American Art-Union took note of the most recent works by Jasper Francis Cropsey, then a promising young landscape painter: "Mr. Cropsey, who in many respects resembles Mr. [Thomas] Cole, has lately been carrying that resemblance still farther, by painting two pictures in [the] epico-allegorical style."(1) The works in question, The Spirit of Peace (Pl. I) and The Spirit of War (Pl.II), are quite different from the autumnal American landscapes that subsequently become virtually synonymous with Cropsey's name.(2) Indeed, so thoroughly is Cropsey associated with the typical Hudson River school landscape that some may be surprised that he ...