Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain

Niagara Falls in Winter

Jasper Francis Cropsey · 1868

Provenance

Ownership history

Judge Nathaniel and Laura Davidson Sears; Elgin Academy, Elgin, IL, by 1967; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

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 York, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Sept. 14–Oct. 25, 1970; Washington DC, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Nov. 23, 1970–Jan. 3, 1971, cat. 41.
Chicago, the Arts Club, The American Landscape, Nov. 14–Dec. 29, 1973, cat. 15.
Buffalo, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697–1901, July 13–Sept. 1, 1985; Washington D.C>, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Sept. 21–Nov. 24, 1985; New York Historical Society, Jan. 22–Apr. 27, 1985, cat. 57.
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, American Heroism Aug. 6–Oct. 14, 2001, cat. 11.

Literature

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.

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