Summer Hills, Hunter Mountain, 1867
by Jervis McEntee (1828–1891)10 3/8 x 7 ½ inches
Dated lower right: Sept. 67
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Provenance
The artist
Calvert Vaux, New York, brother-in-law of the artist
Julia Vaux Donaldson Barrett, great-granddaughter of the above, by descent
Private collection, by descent from above
Exhibited Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, New York, Jervis McEntee: Painter-Poet of the Hudson River School, August 26–December 13, 2015
Literature Lee A. Vedder, Jervis McEntee: Painter-Poet of the Hudson River School (New Paltz, NY: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, 2015), 75, plate 24, 120.
Artist Biography
A well-known 19th-century American artist, Jervis McEntee was a prominent member of the Hudson River School recognized for his expressive autumnal landscapes.
By Chelsea DeLay
I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Suggested Resources
VII. Notes
I. Biography
Jervis McEntee was born in Rondout, New York on July 14, 1828. During the winter of 1850–51, the twenty-two-year-old McEntee studied under Frederic Edwin Church and the two maintained a life-long friendship. McEntee married Gertrude Sawyer in 1854 and three years later the couple