Collection

Autumn landscape paintings, framed

American painters were the first to make a subject of the fall colours. Thomas Cole painted the Catskills in early autumn in the 1830s, and Jasper Cropsey's blazing Hudson River views became so popular in London that viewers there doubted the colours were real.

Here are John Frederick Kensett's October day in the White Mountains, Thomas Moran's Catawissa valley and Wissahickon, Sanford Robinson Gifford's Kaaterskill Clove, William Trost Richards's October and Indian Summer, and George Inness's quieter late autumn fields. From Japan, Hiroshige frames a shrine at Mama with red maple leaves, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.

Most are wide, warm and full of light, so one Large print over a sofa, a fireplace or a dining table carries a whole room through the season. Each is printed at its true shape, nothing cropped or stretched, and arrives framed and ready to hang.

17 works in this collection, dated 1837 to 1891. Most represented: George Inness (3), Sanford Robinson Gifford (2), and Thomas Cole (2). Sources include The Cleveland Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.