HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL PAINTER JERVIS McENTEE 1828-89 4 PAGE LETTER EDWIN BOOTH

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He was a friend and colleague of Frederic Edwin Church and Eastman Johnson and a major figure in the 19th century American Hudson River School of artists. He was a close friend and regular correspondent of the great actor Edwin Booth. A rare autograph letter of the America� n Hudson River School painter Jervis McEntee to the author and journalist Edmund Stedman, a close friend. Four pages with excellent content. Dimensions seven by four and a quarter inches. Light wear and a few small punctures otherwise good.� � Shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Credit cards accepted with Paypal. Inquiries always welcome. Please visit my other eBay items for more early theatre and historical autographs, photographs, broadsides and programs and great actor and actress cabinet photos and CDV's. From Wikipedia: Jervis McEntee� (July 14, 1828 – January 27, 1891) was an American� painter� of the� Hudson River School. He is a somewhat lesser-known figure of the 19th century American art world, but was the close friend and traveling companion of several of the important Hudson River School artists. Aside from his paintings, McEntee's detailed journals are an enduring legacy. McEntee was born in� Rondout, New York� on July 14, 1828. Little is known of his childhood. He exhibited his first painting at the� National Academy of Design� in New York City in 1850. The following year he apprenticed with� Frederic Edwin Church, who was then regarded as a rising star in the American art world. Church and McEntee remained lifelong friends, though McEntee never approached Church's fame and fortune. After studying with Church, McEntee engaged in business in Rondout. This he relinquished after three years, and, opening a studio in New York, devoted himself thenceforth wholly to art.[1]Biography The� landscapes� of Jervis McEntee are known for their melancholy and poetic mood. The sky is often cloudy in a McEntee� landscape, the season autumn. While� Jasper Francis Cropseyand other artists typically painted bright fall foliage, McEntee often captured the season near its end, with the leaves faded and falling from the trees. "Some people call my� landscapesgloomy and disagreeable," McEntee wrote in his journal, "They say I paint the sorrowful side of nature . . . But this is a mistake . . . Nature is not sad to me but quiet, pensive, restful." McEntee was a particularly close friend of Hudson River School artists� Sanford Robinson Gifford� and� Worthington Whittredge� as well as figurative painter� Eastman Johnson. He was made an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1860, and a full academician in 1861. In 1869 he visited Europe, painting much in Italy.[2]� He died on January 27, 1891 ofBright's disease� and is buried in� Montrepose Cemetery� in� Kingston, New York. Journals Aside from his paintings, McEntee's enduring legacy are the detailed journals he kept from the early 1870s until his death. In his writings McEntee records a detailed account of Hudson River School artists, their day-to-day life, gossip and personal reflections, and the overall arc of the American art world in the second half of the 19th century. He discusses his artistic successes and trials, particularly as money becomes more scarce with the decline in popularity of Hudson River School art. McEntee's journals are now kept by the� Archives of American Art, a research center within the� Smithsonian Institution. Five volumes of these diaries, from 1872 to 1890, have been digitally scanned, transcribed, and can be browsed in their entirety in the Jervis McEntee Diaries Online.[3] read more

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