Oil on canvas
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Eliza McMillan Fund
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This is one of the most romantically wild of Cropsey's early landscapes, in which the influence of the earlier artist,
Thomas Cole is vividly felt.
Cropsey's use of black to express the threatening presences of nature was particularly influenced by Cole, who in turn
was influenced by the seventeenth-century artist Salvator Rosa.
It also foreshadows the symbolic use of black in an explicitly mythological picture, Thomas Moran's
Hiawatha.
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Room 1: Wilderness
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)