Object number1864.1.22
Morning on the Coast of Sicily
Date1855
Artist
Jasper Francis Cropsey
(American, 1823-1900)
CultureAmerican
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (13.97 x 23.5 cm)
Framed: 12 1/2 x 16 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. (31.75 x 41.59 x 6.35 cm)
Framed: 12 1/2 x 16 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. (31.75 x 41.59 x 6.35 cm)
Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar
On View
On viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned lower right: J. F. Cropsey
InscribedBy artist, lower right: 1855
BibliographyFoshay, Ella M., and Sally Mills. All Seasons and Every Light: Nineteenth Century American Landscapes from the Collection of Elias Lyman Magoon. Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1983, p. 47;
Koenig, Monica Anke. America and the Grand Tour: Sanford Robinson Gifford at Home and Abroad. Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1991;
Speiser, Anthony M. Francis Cropsey, Catalogue Raisonné Works in Oil, Volume One: 1842-1863. New York, Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2013, p. 208, fig. 344 ProvenanceCollections: Elias MagoonVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryAll Seasons and Every Light, Vassar College Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 14 - December 16, 1983; DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, February 5 - March 25, 1984; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, March 25 - July 1, 1984; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, November 16, 1984 - January 13, 1985;America and the Grand Tour: Sanford Robinson Gifford at Home and Abroad, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 17 - June 9, 1991
DescriptionDepiction of a coastal landscape with large, crashing waves and tall, craggy rocks in the distance at right and center. The sky along the horizon is a light red and yellow, fading to wispy clouds above and a grey-blue sky above. Minute ruins or similar structures are visible at the top of one of the rock formations at right.
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