Lesser-known trivia and tidbits about Hastings’ famed painter Jasper Francis Cropsey

Artist and Architect The popularity of the Hudson River School came during a time of tension between nature and industry. While Hudson River School painters found their inspiration from the unaltered and natural beauty of the land and the river, life along the Hudson was changing. The Hudson River Valley […]
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Hastings in Yonkers!

“View at Hastings-on-Hudson,” painted by Jasper F. Cropsey ca. 1891, on view at the Hudson River Museum, and currently part of their Paintbox Leaves exhibition. We have so loved working on this blog, dear readers, and sharing the wonderful stories and photographs that the Historical Society has collected over the […]
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