• Under the Palisades, in October
    Jasper Francis Cropsey
    Hudson River School
    landscapes
    painting
    This landscape is by Jasper Francis Cropsey, an American painter associated with the Hudson River School. This striking landscape is almost split between the darker cliff face, which is covered in trees whose leaves are turning, and the lighter left side of the sky and the quiet Hudson River, with a handful of boats visible on the water. Five of Cropsey's paintings are in the White House Collection.
  • Deer by a Lake
    Jasper Francis Cropsey
    landscapes
    Hudson River School
    painting
    This landscape is by Jasper Francis Cropsey, an American painter associated with the Hudson River School. The painting is a grand landscape of dark cliffs and fall trees with a lake running through the middle of the canvas. A grown, male deer stands on the left shore of the lake, giving the painting its name. Five of Cropsey's paintings are in the White House Collection.
  • Autumn Landscape on the Hudson River
    Jasper Francis Cropsey
    painting
    landscapes
    Hudson River School
    New York
    This landscape is by Jasper Francis Cropsey, an American painter associated with the Hudson River School. The canvas is almost twice as wide as it is high, conveying a broad scale of the scene where the sun sets on the other side of the Hudson River. There are two men by a rowboat near the center of the painting, the only human figures in the pastoral scene. Five of Cropsey's paintings are in the White House Collection.
  • A Mountain Glimpse
    Jasper Francis Cropsey
    landscapes
    painting
    Hudson River School
    This landscape is by Jasper Francis Cropsey, an American painter associated with the Hudson River School. The landscape depicts a low-lying forest with a clearing seen through a gap in the trees. Two people stand far-off on the other side of the clearing, the only two human figures in the scene. Of the five paintings of Cropsey's that are in the White House Collection, this is the only one that does not have an autumn theme.
  • The Mellow Autumn Time
    Jasper Francis Cropsey
    landscapes
    painting
    Hudson River School
    This landscape is by Jasper Francis Cropsey, an American painter associated with the Hudson River School. The painting captures a small scene on a riverbank, with a man pushing a rowboat in or out of the water. The river is shallow with a rickety bridge over it at the horizon. Beyond the central scene, the painting opens to a grand landscape of mountains and cliffs. Five of Cropsey's paintings are in the White House Collection.