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ESTATE STAMP DATED 1892. VERSO MAJOR AUCTION RESULTS OF OVER $288,000. IMPORTANT AMERICAN MASTER OF THE LANDSCAPES AND TREES. JERVIS MCENTEE. ONE OF THE MAJOR ARTISTS OF THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL ARTISTS.

ARTIST
Jervis McEntee (AMERICAN, 1828-1891)

SIGNED:
ESTATE STAMP VERSO: DATED 1892.

MEDIUM:
OIL ON BOARD .
TITLE:
"Study of trees near schulls"

SIZE WITHOUT FRAME:
17 1/2" x 23 1/2"

GOLD WOOD FRAME. GOOD CONDITION.

Condition:
GOOD CONDITION

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 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. 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. McEntee was a particularly close friend of Hudson River School artists Sanford Robinson Gifford and Worthington Whittredge as well as figurative painter Eastman Johnson. Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1864The landscapes of Jervis McEntee are known for their melancholy and poetic mood[1]. The sky is often cloudy in a McEntee landscape, the season autumn. While Jasper Francis Cropsey and 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 landscapes gloomy 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 died on January 27, 1891 of Bright's disease and is buried in Wiltwycke Cemetery in Kingston, New York.

Jervis McEntee
Title Autumn landscape
Medium oil on canvas
Year of Work 1867
Size Height 29.8 in.; Width 54.3 in. / Height 75.7 cm.; Width 137.9 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale of Sotheby's New York: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 [Lot 108]
American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture
Estimate 50,000 - 70,000 US$
Sold For 288,000 US$ PREMIUM

Jervis McEntee
Title Jackrabbit on a woodland path
Medium oil on canvas
Year of Work 1881
Size Height 36.2 in.; Width 30.5 in. / Height 91.9 cm.; Width 77.5 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale of Skinner: Friday, November 18, 2005 [Lot 116] American & European Paintings
Estimate 1,500 - 2,500 US$
Sold For 44,063 US$ PREMIUM

Jervis McEntee
Title Landscape
Medium Oil on Canvas
Size Height 20.2 in.; Width 30 in. / Height 51.3 cm.; Width 76.2 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale of Sotheby's New York: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 [Lot 127] American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture
Estimate 18,000 - 24,000 US$
Sold For 39,000 US$ PREMIUM

Jervis McEntee
Title Late autumn landscape
Medium Oil on Canvas
Year of Work 1880
Size Height 36 in.; Width 30.1 in...

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