Lot 449
William Craig (American, 1829-1875), "The Highlands of the Hudson River", c. 1866, watercolor (with gouache or oil) on paper, signed "W Craig" lower left, sight 5 1/4 in. x 8 7/8 in., framed. E800-1200 Note: This highly accomplished landscape by the Dublin-born Craig is hard to place: it seems perhaps to show a generalized view of West Point in the left middle distance, with the Crow's Nest and Storm King Mountain beyond. A reverse label from the Florence Lewison Gallery, New York, cites a possible date of c. 1866, presumably referring to the prints published at New York in that year by Benson J. Lossing in The Hudson, From the Wilderness to the Sea (note especially the similarities of this view with its plates of the "Northern View from Storm King", and "Newburgh Bay"). Craig immigrated to New York in 1863 and began exhibiting at the National Academy of Design from 1864; he made a tour of upstate New York, Ohio, and Kentucky immediately after the end of the Civil War in 1865, and this sheet may perhaps more correctly be associated with that journey. His career was cut short by his drowning at Lake George in 1875.
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