Mount Desert Island, Maine

Jervis McEntee

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Jervis McEntee

American · 1828–1891

Hudson River school

Jervis McEntee was an American painter of the Hudson River School. He is a lesser-known figure of the 19th-century American art world, but was a close friend and traveling companion of several of the important Hudson River School artists. Aside from his paintings, McEntee's unpublished journals, written from 1872 to 1890, are an enduring legacy, documenting the life of a New York painter during and after the Gilded Age.

Independent artist guide by Momentable. Biography from Wikipedia; artworks credited to the museums that hold them.

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Mount Desert Island, Maine — The living window: art moves here the way it moves in your living room.

life: 1828–1891life
movement: Hudson River schoolmovement

The work

A selection of 2 works, free to stream.

Autumn in the Catskills
Jervis McEntee
The Cleveland Museum of Art

Works worth knowing

What Jervis McEntee made, and why each one is worth looking at.

How Jervis McEntee worked

From the record of their own practice.

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 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."