Eagle Cliff, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire

Artist Jasper Francis Cropsey American, 1823–1900

Date1858

MediumOil on canvas, mounted on panel

Dimensions23 15/16 x 38 7/8 in. (60.8 x 98.8 cm)
Frame: 27 3/4 x 43 in. (70.5 x 109.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.9

On View

On view

Provenance**Created United States, 1858; collection of the artist. Mrs. Kleinberger, Bridgeport, CT; [Victor D. Spark, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesExhibition of Some Early 19th Century Americans (exhibition brochure) (New York: Macbeth Gallery, 1945), no. 4.

American Romantic (exhibition catalogue) (Hagerstown, MD: The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 1947), cat. no. 14.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings, Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 10, illus. (b-w).

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 13, illus. (b-w).

Nina Kasanof, "American Landscapes of the 19th Century in the North Carolina Museum of Art." North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 8 (June 1969), 2-15, discussed 6, illus. (b-w) fig. 3.

American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 10.

William S. Talbot, Jasper F. Cropsey 1823-1900 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977) cat. no. 113, discussed 141-2, illus. (b-w) fig. 102.

Donald D. Keyes, et al, The White Mountains: Place and Perceptions (exhibition catalogue) (Durham: University of New Hampshire Art Galleries, 1980), discussed 88-89, illus. (b-w) fig. 14.

Bernard Bonario, "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow: Jasper F. Cropsey's 'The Backwoods of America'," Canadian Art Review 9 (1982), 9-20, discussed 13 -15, illus. (b-w) fig. 4.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 241.

American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1989), mentioned 14.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 225.

John W. Coffey, entry for Eagle Cliff, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 199, illus. (color).

M. Therese Southgate, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 288, no. 11 (September 18, 2002), discussed 1324, illus. (color) 1315, 1324, and cover.

"Highlights Include Kids' Favorites," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (September/October 2003), mentioned 7, illus. (color) 6.

John W. Coffey, entry for Eagle Cliff, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 414, illus. (color) 415.

Jasper Francis Cropsey, Catalogue Raisonné: Works in Oil, Volume One: 1842–1863 (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2013), cat. no. 527, illus. (color).

Andrew Belonsky, The Log Cabin: An Illustrated History (New York: The Countryman Press, 2018), illus. (color) 105, fig. 4.14.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Macbeth Gallery, “Exhibition of Some Early 19th Century Americans,” March 12–31, 1945, no. 4.

Boston, MA, Doll & Richards Gallery, "Early Painters of Maine and New Hampshire," June 2-July 19, 1947.

Hagerstown, MD, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, "American Romantic," March 30-April 27, 1947, no. 14.

Lynchburg, VA, Randolph-Macon Women's College Art Gallery, "37th Annual Exhibition of American Painting," May 7-June 7, 1948, no. 5.

Milwaukee, WS., Milwaukee Art Institute, "Second Annual Purchase Show," March, 1949.

Charlotte, NC, The Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, no. 10.

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "Inaugural Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of North Carolina Museum of Art," May 1-30, 1978.

Durham, NH, University of New Hampshire Art Galleries, "The White Mountains: Place and Perceptions," September 8-October 29, 1980; New York, NY, New York Historical Society, December 1, 1980-January 30, 1981; Hanover, NH, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, March 6-April 9, 1981, discussed 88-89, illus. (b-w) fig. 14.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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