View of the Mountain House from North Mountain
View of the Mountain House from North Mountain
Sloan painted a salon-style landscape in 1870, when the Catskill Mountain House was at the peak of its popularity, with accommodations for 400 guests and as many servants. It was a ritual at the Mountain House to wake the guests shortly before five to invite them out on the piazza to watch the sun rise over the Hudson.
Junius R. Sloan (1827-1900), Kaaterskill Lakes, ca.1870, oil on canvas on masonite, 35 x 59 inches, Brauer Museum of Art, Percy H. Sloan Trust, 1953.1.69.
Sloan’s sketch of the view
Junius R. Sloan (1827-1900), Kaaterskill Lakes, 1867, oil on canvas on masonite, 14 1/8 x 23 inches, Brauer Museum of Art, Percy H. Sloan Trust, 53.01.174.
Same view painted by Jasper Cropsey
Jasper F. Cropsey (1823-1900), Catskill Mountain House, 1865, oil on canvas, 29 x 44 inches., Minneapolis Institute of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Lillian Lawhead Rinderer in memory of her brother William A Lawhead, and the William Hoon Dunwoody Fund.
A Virtual Exhibition sponsored by the Valparaiso University Brauer Museum of Art
- Junius Sloan’s Kaaterskill Lakes and the Catskill Mountain House: The Story of an American Cultural Icon
- Site 2: View from Mountain House
- Site 3: Mountain House
- Site 4: Description of Mountain
- Site 5: Kaaterskill Falls
- Site 6: Kaaterskill Clove, West
- Site 7: Kaaterskill Clove, East
- Site 8: In Kaaterskill Clove
- Site 9: Palenville Overlook