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Jervis McEntee (1828-1891)

Professions: Landscape painter

  • JERVIS MCENTEE 1828-1891 AUTUMN LANDSCAPE Measurements: 29.75 by 54. 25in. Alternate Measurements: (75.6 by 137.8 cm) signed J. McEntee and dated 1867, l.l. oil on canvas Provenance: James Pinchot Governor Gifford Pinchot Mr. Gifford Pinchot Private

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  • Jervis McEntee 1828-1891 , Autumn Lake Scene oil on canvas

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Jervis McEntee Biography

(b Rondout, NY, 14 July 1828; d Rondout, 27 Jan 1891). American painter. His only period of professional painting instruction was with Frederic Edwin Church in New York during the winter of 1850–51, after which his family steered him into business. By 1859, however, he had decided to devote himself to painting as a career; he took a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York and travelled regularly between there and Rondout on the Hudson River. McEntee’s speciality was the sober autumnal and winter landscape (e.g. Autumn Landscape , 1868; priv. col., see 1987 exh. cat., p. 278); he crafted his imagery from recollections of solitary walks taken in the Rondout area to palliate the effects of his own melancholic temperament. Simple landscape forms, narrow ranges of tone and subdued atmospheric effects distinguish McEntee’s work from the dramatic topography and light preferred by many artists associated with the Hudson River school and link his sensibility with those American painters inspired by the Barbizon school. Following his sole trip abroad, to Europe, in 1868–9, he occasionally produced Italian subjects, such as the Ruins of Caesar’s Palace (c. 1869; Philadelphia, PA, Acad. F.A.), and experimented with figural imagery in the 1870s and 1880s. McEntee exhibited landscapes at the National Academy of Design, New York, almost every year between 1850 and 1890. Beginning in 1872 he kept a diary, chronicling two decades of the social life and views of the conservative faction within the National Academy of Design.

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