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.
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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
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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
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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