Kendal’s Trips Committee announced a new trip, this one to the Newington-Cropsey Foundation on Wednesday, October 12.
We will visit the home and studio of artist Jasper Cropsey and the Newington-Cropsey Foundation’s art gallery in nearby Hastings-on-Hudson. Jasper R. Cropsey (1823-1900) was one of the 19th-century artists in the Hudson River School of Painters. This group of artists, which included Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and others, were inspired by the scenery of the Hudson River Valley.
They created the first paintings of the American landscape in a new Romantic style. These artists also traveled to Europe and painted a variety of other settings and themes.
After many years in Europe, Cropsey purchased a house in Hastings-on-Hudson in 1885 where he lived and worked for 15 years until his death.
The Newington-Cropsey Foundation was started in 1977 to preserve and display Cropsey’s home and paintings. The Cropsey Homestead “Ever Rest,” built in the 1830s in the Carpenter Gothic style, is on the National Register of Historic Homes. Some furnishings were designed by Cropsey; other pieces are European and Asian. The house has been maintained as it was in the Cropsey family’s time.
The Cropsey Gallery, built in 1994, housed in a Gothic Revival building with an ornate rotunda, offers temporary exhibits and art shows. There will be tours of both the house and the gallery, with lunch at Maud’s Tavern in between.