Skip to main content
Video Loading
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 10

Jervis McEntee
Autumn Idle, Catskills, New York, October 23, 1885

1885

About the Item

Autumn Idle, Catskills, New York, October 23, 1885 By. Jervis McEntee (American, 1828-1891) Unframed: 11.5" x 16" Framed: 20.5" x 25" Jervis McEntee was a landscape painter, born in 1828 in the Hudson River Valley in Rondout, New York. It was said that 'Nostalgia may well have been McEntee's middle name", and that he, always attempting to stir emotions in his viewers, often attached poetry to his paintings when exhibiting them. At a time when the Civil War and its after effects caused great disruption in America, McEntee's work may have provided a visual escape for the more educated. His works are rich with the colors of autumn and winter, and he, who often painted in the Catskill Mountains, preferred smaller views rather than panoramas. Usually detailed and simple, his works often reflect a sense of loneliness. As a youngster, McEntee would play in his parents attic, pretending it was an art studio. An unsuccessful attempt at business led McEntee back into the art profession where he studied in New York City under the influence of Frederic E. Church, master of the Hudson River Style, and soon had a showing of his own in the famous Tenth Street Studio Building by 1855. In about 1858, Mr. and Mrs. McEntee hired English architect Calvert Vaux to build a studio next to McEntee's fathers house in Rondout. There Jervis would spend most of his summers, painting the nearby Catskill Mountains, and returning to the city during the winter. At the outbreak of the Civil War, McEntee enlisted in the Union Army. Sanford Robinson Gifford and Worthington Whittredge were among his friends. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, at the Paris Exposition of 1867, and at the Boston Art Club during the period 1873 to 1891. He was elected an associate member of the National Academy in 1860. McEntee's work has been preserved at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Peabody Institute.
More From This SellerView All
  • Catskill Sawmill
    By John William Hill
    Located in Missouri, MO
    Afternoon In The Hudson River Valley, 1854 By. John William Hill (English, American, 1812-1879) Signed and Dated Lower Left Unframed: 20 x 30 inches Fra...
    Category

    1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Village Under the Snow
    Located in Missouri, MO
    Village Under the Snow By. David Schulman (Dutch, 1881-1966) Signed Lower Right Unframed: 15.5" x 23.5" Framed: 23.5" x 31.5" David Schulman was a Dutch self-taught painter, draftsman and watercolorist. He was born in the city of Hilversum, in 1881. Schulman's father Lion was a painter himself and was known to be come an art dealer in subsequent years. Apart from this, he sold painting...
    Category

    20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Mid-day, Zuni Village
    By Frank Reed Whiteside
    Located in Missouri, MO
    Mid-day, Zuni Village, 1897 By. Frank Reed Whiteside (American, 1866-1929) Unframed: 20" x 30" Framed: 28" x 38" Frank Reed Whiteside, born in Philadelphia on 20 August 1867, became a student of Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1888-92). He already began exhibiting there during his student years (1887-98). In 1893, he enrolled in the Académie Julian in Paris where he received instruction from Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. After his French academic training, Whiteside taught art in Philadelphia high schools. He took frequent trips to the Southwest between 1890 and 1928 to live with and paint the Zuni Indians. Whiteside depicted ceremonial dances, Zuni buildings, and other genre scenes, usually in blinding afternoon sunlight. He carefully observed the effects of light on vibrant color, using a finely crafted impressionist technique. He was fond of broad areas of color, subtle combinations of hues, and simplified shapes and silhouettes. Whiteside continued to exhibit at the PAFA (1905-15), at the Art Institute of Chicago (1896-1916), at the Carnegie International (1905 and 1907) and at the Corcoran Gallery (1907). He was a member of Philadelphia art societies and beginning in 1909 had a summer studio in Ogunquit, Maine, where he took part in Hamilton Easter Field's discussion groups. Frank's wife, Clara Walker Whiteside, who published Touring New England in 1926, was active in the Ogunquit Art Association. Like Stanford White, Frank Reed Whiteside was the victim of murder, on 19 September 1929, but Whiteside's case remains unsolved. One night, the sixty-three year-old painter answered the doorbell. Two witnesses...
    Category

    Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Sunrise
    Located in Missouri, MO
    Sunrise, 1981 By. Jim Palmer (American, b. 1941) Signed and Dated Lower Right Unframed: 24" x 36" Framed: 30" x 42" Born in 1941 in Columbia, South Carolina, Jim Palmer attended the University of South Carolina in 1960 before going on to study at the Atlanta School of Art in 1964. In 1966 he and his wife moved to Hilton Head Island, the second artist to do so during the Island's early years. Since living here, he designed the cover of the Chamber of Commerce' Islander Magazine, has been a contributing artist to the Island Events Magazine, and has painted many Low Country scenes that grace homes and businesses throughout the country. Palmer was the illustrator for two books written by local authors: A Corner of South Carolina and Moonshadows. His work has been included in exhibits at the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, TN; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Southeastern Artists Exhibition, Atlanta, GA; Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, SC; Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA; and Bay Hills Club, Orlando, FL. His paintings are part of the private collections of C&S National Banks in Columbia and Hilton Head Island; Banker's Trust Tower, Columbia, SC; Palmetto State Bank, Bluffton, SC, among others. Several paintings are also included in the collections of former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Dwight Eisenhower, former South Carolina Governor Robert McNair and singer John Denver.
    Category

    1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Seagulls (Birds in Flight)
    Located in Missouri, MO
    Seagulls (Birds in Flight), 1982 By. Jim Palmer (American, b. 1941) Signed and Dated Lower Right Unframed: 32" x 36" Framed: 37" x 42.5" Born in 1941 in Columbia, South Carolina, Jim Palmer attended the University of South Carolina in 1960 before going on to study at the Atlanta School of Art in 1964. In 1966 he and his wife moved to Hilton Head Island, the second artist to do so during the Island's early years. Since living here, he designed the cover of the Chamber of Commerce' Islander Magazine, has been a contributing artist to the Island Events Magazine, and has painted many Low Country scenes that grace homes and businesses throughout the country. Palmer was the illustrator for two books written by local authors: A Corner of South Carolina and Moonshadows. His work has been included in exhibits at the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, TN; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Southeastern Artists Exhibition, Atlanta, GA; Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, SC; Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA; and Bay Hills Club, Orlando, FL. His paintings are part of the private collections of C&S National Banks in Columbia and Hilton Head Island; Banker's Trust Tower, Columbia, SC; Palmetto State Bank, Bluffton, SC, among others. Several paintings are also included in the collections of former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Dwight Eisenhower, former South Carolina Governor Robert McNair and singer John Denver.
    Category

    1980s American Modern Animal Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • La Seine, Paris
    By Frank Myers Boggs
    Located in Missouri, MO
    La Seine, Paris, 1897 By Frank M. Boggs (American, 1855-1926) Unframed: 15" x 22" Framed: 23" x 30" Signed and Dated Lower Left Frank Boggs was a master o...
    Category

    Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

You May Also Like
  • Forest Clearing
    By Roswell Morse Shurtleff
    Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
    Signed lower left. Most noted for his paintings of forest interiors, Roswell Shurtleff settled in Hartford, Connecticut but spent his summers painting his signature works in the Adirondacks at Keene Valley, New York. He and John Lee Fitch successfully encouraged other artists to join them including Winslow Homer, J Alden Weir, James Smillie...
    Category

    Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape after Richard Goodwin
    Located in Soquel, CA
    Charming Hudson River school antique oil painting of a sailboat on a lake, circa 1880-90. Signed "R. Labarr." after Richard LaBarre Goodwin...
    Category

    1880s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • New England Farm
    Located in Milford, NH
    A fine large landscape of a New England farm with cows, stone arch bridge, farmhouse and barns by American artist John White Allen Scott (1815-1907). Scott was born in Roxbury, MA and apprenticed with lithographer William Pendleton and later worked with Fitz Henry Lane...
    Category

    19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Summer Landscape
    By James Renwick Brevoort
    Located in New York, NY
    Signed lower right: JR Brevoort
    Category

    1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Lost Cove
    By Ralph Albert Blakelock
    Located in New York, NY
    Signed lower left in arrowhead: R A Blakelock
    Category

    Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Twilight in the Marshes
    By James Renwick Brevoort
    Located in New York, NY
    Signed lower right: J.R. Brevoort.
    Category

    19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

Recently Viewed

View All