Newly Discovered Cropsey’s Paintings Fetch USD 840,000
Posted by admin on May 17, 2011 under Art | 
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Two landscape paintings by 19th-century Hudson River School artist Jasper F. Cropsey fetch USD 840,000 on being auctioned at the Clarke Auction House in Larchmont. The pair of paintings was discovered in March, when a man from Cortlandt, New York, (identity protected by the auction house) brought them for appraisal at Clarke. Nelia Moore, an auctioneer at Clarke, says the man paid USD20 for the appraisal.
He informed the auction house that the paintings have been in his family for three generations and hung in the basement of his parents' house in West Hartford, Connecticut.
One of the paintings, depicting Niagara Falls, sold for USD 552,000, while the other, an autumn scene set in New Hampshire, sold for USD 288,000.
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