Gavin Spanierman 2012

JERVIS McENTEE (1828– 1891) Jervis McEntee was an American painter of the Hudson River School. He was born in Rondout, New York on July 14, 1828 and exhibited his first painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1850. He apprenticed with Frederic Edwin Church, a leading figure in the Hudson River School of painters and one of the most celebrated artists of the 1850s and 60s. The landscapes of Jervis McEntee are known for their melancholy and poetic mood. McEntee often chose to portray cloudy autumn days in his paintings. 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 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. He exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association, the Boston Art Club, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1869 he visited Europe, painting much in Italy. He died on January 27, 1891. Mount Washington, Saco River, New Hampshire Oil on canvas 13 x 23 inches Initialed lower left: JM 1044 Madison Avenue, Suite 4F (212) 249-0619 gavin@gspanierman.com w ww.gspanierman.com GAVIN SPANIERMAN, ltd. GS