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Dimensions: measurements 12 by 20 1/4 in. alternate measurements (30.5 by 51.4 cm)
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Provenance: Sale: Artist to Artists' Fund Society, New York, February 6, 1871, lot 72 (possibly)
Private collection
By descent in the family to the present owner
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Literature: "The Union League Club: Annual Meeting Last Night," New York Evening Post, January 13, 1871
"Art Notes," New York Evening Post, January 1871, p. 2, (as View of Lake George)
"Exhibition of Pictures at the Union League Club," New York Herald, January 18, 1871, (as Lake Geneva)
"Ladies' Annual Reception of the Union League Club," New York Evening Post, January 27, 1871, p. 3
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Notes: This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work to be published by the Newington-Cropsey foundation.
Dr. Kenneth Maddox writes: "The mountain on the left is Black Mountain at Lake George, which the artist sketched September 8, 1945. In his journal for that date he wrote: 'Engaged a boy and went on the lake - as far up as the narrows & from one of the Islands - [illegible word] north on the east side, I made a ketch of Black mountain, returned at 4 PM. It was very blustering & cold - the clearest day I have had since I have been here, sometimes the sky was cloudless.' The sketches made by Cropsey on his two-week sketching excursion were used by the artist for over fifty views of Lake George that he painted during the rest of his life. The left foreground cutting diagonally across this composition was fabricated by the painter, as well as the male figure, which the artist may have intended as a surrogate image for himself."
