It was found to incorporate designs by many of the leading painters of its day, including Jasper Francis Cropsey, Frederic Edwin Church, and Henry Courtney Selous ( Selous was the in-house painter for the original Barker panorama in London for many years.

The town of Kochsville was founded when the Clinton, Bloomington and Northeastern Railroad was finished from Colfax to Bloomington ; in 1880 the part of the railroad from Kankakee to Colfax had been finished, resulting in the 1880 founding of Cropsey, Anchor, and Colfax ; but the remainder of the railroad was delayed for two years.

Jasper Francis Cropsey ( February 18, 1823 – June 22, 1900 ) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.

Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropsey's farm in Rossville on Staten Island, New York, the oldest of eight children.

Cropsey was a personal friend of Henry Tappan, the president of the University of Michigan from 1852 to 1863.

Jasper Cropsey died in anonymity but was rediscovered by galleries and collectors in the 1960s.

* Jasper Francis Cropsey ( 1823-1900 )-A landscape artist of the Hudson River School who was born on his family's farm in Rossville.

from the London School of Economics, where he studied under Oakeshott himself, and a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago, where his advisor was Joseph Cropsey, a friend and disciple of the controversial political philosopher Leo Strauss.

Along with Sanford Robinson Gifford, Fitz Henry Lane, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Martin Johnson Heade and others, the works of the " Luminists ", as they came to be known, were characterized by unselfconscious, nearly invisible brushstrokes used to convey the qualities and effects of atmospheric light.

Following an incident in June 1864, in which Meade disciplined reporter Edward Cropsey from The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper for an unfavorable article, all of the press assigned to his army agreed to mention Meade only in conjunction with setbacks.

The monument of Jasper Francis Cropsey in Sleepy Hollow CemeteryCropsey's home and studio, Ever Rest, in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York as well as the largest permanent collection of Cropsey's work are open for tours by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation.

Exit 6 going westbound is for Cropsey Avenue, which heads towards Coney Island.

Cropsey Ave. and Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn are named for the latter two.

While absent from school, Cropsey taught himself to draw.

Cropsey married Maria Cooley in May 1847, traveled in Europe from 1847 – 1849, visiting England, France, Switzerland, and Italy.

The western inlet can be seen from street bridges at Cropsey Avenue ( between Bay 54th Street and Hart Place ) and Stillwell Avenue ( between Shore Parkway and Neptune Avenue ), and from the D / N New York City Subway lines several yards east of Stillwell Avenue ( and just north of the Coney Island -- Stillwell Avenue Station ).

While Jasper Francis Cropsey and other artists typically painted bright fall foliage, McEntee often captured the season near its end, with the leaves faded and falling from the trees.

View from The Mountain House, 1836, by William Henry BartlettThe Mountain House, 1856, by Jasper Francis Cropsey

* Jasper Francis Cropsey ( 1823 – 1900 ), Hudson River School landscape painter, referred to as " America's Painter of Autumn ".

Some of his works include " Jedburgh Abbey "; " Pontaine Marshes " ( 1847 ); " Backwoods of America " ( 1857 ); " Richmond Hill " ( 1862 ); " Indian Summer " ( 1866 ); " Greenwood Lake " ( 1870 ); " Lake Nemi in Italy " ( 1879 ); " Old Church at Arreton, Isle of Wight " ( 1880 ); " Ramapo Valley " ( 1881 ); " Autumn on the Hudson " ( 1882 ; however, the New York Daily Tribune refers to a painting by Cropsey called " Autumn on the Hudson " in its morning edition of Jan. 7, 1861 ): " Wawayanda Valley " ( 1883 ); " Spring-time in England " ( 1884 ); " October in Ramapo Valley " ( 1885 ); " Autumn on Lake George ," and " A Showery Day " ( 1886 ).

Co-editor with Joseph Cropsey.

Cropsey co-founded, with ten fellow artists, the American Society of Painters in Water Colors in 1866.

Five months after Frankie's injury, on July 15, 1921, he, his brother Angelo, and four men were driving on Cropsey Avenue in Bath Beach when another car filled with rival gunmen overtook them and opened fire.

Colfax, Cropsey and Cooksville were laid out at the same time.

There were also a handful of stores and the Morris Hotel Cropsey remained a small town.

Cropsey, Anchor, and Cooksville were all laid out at the same time as Colfax.

In History of Political Philosophy, third edition, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, 456 – 475.

In History of Political Philosophy, third edition, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, 296 – 317.

Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey.

Church showed his paintings at the annual exhibitions of the National Academy of Design, the American Art Union, and at the Boston Art Club, alongside Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, John F. Kensett, and Jasper F. Cropsey.

As a young boy, Cropsey had recurring periods of poor health.

Cropsey studied watercolor and life drawing at the National Academy of Design under the instruction of Edward Maury and first exhibited there in 1844.

Works by Cropsey also hang in the White House.

Cropsey and his wife Maria are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

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