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* Jervis McEntee: Kingston's Artist of the Hudson River School ¹ PDF Read by # Friends of Historic Kingston eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Jervis McEntee: Kingston's Artist of the Hudson River School James McEntee built a homestead on a hill overlooking the Hudson River that later became West Chestnut Street. He counted among his friends Sanford Gifford, Worthington Whittredge, Frederic Church, and Edwin Booth, assassin John Wilkes s brother and the foremost American actor of his time. He was greatly admired in the nineteenth century, but has not seen the resurgence in appreciation and public interest that many other Hudson River School artists like Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Frederic Ch
| Title | : | Jervis McEntee: Kingston's Artist of the Hudson River School |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.49 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1883789818 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
John said Four Stars. A small informative book on an excellent artist.
Provides a detailed and brisk biographical essay by Lowell Thing. A substantial and informative catalogue featuring much of McEntee's work. Rhoads, professor emeritus of art history at SUNY New Paltz. Thing's essay is followed by a lucid critical discussion of the architectural significance of McEntee's Rondout studio and several other notable studios in the region by William B. --Ulster Publishing, 4/23/2015
Lowell Thing is a former Board Chair for the Friends of Historic Kingston and the author of the forthcoming book The Street That Built a City: McEntee's Chestnut Street, Kingston, New York. William B. He is the author of: Kingston, New York: The Architectural History & Guide (2003); and Ulster County, New York: The Architectural History & Guide (2011). Rhoads is a professor emeritus of art history at SUNY New Paltz. . His publications in
James McEntee built a homestead on a hill overlooking the Hudson River that later became West Chestnut Street. He counted among his friends Sanford Gifford, Worthington Whittredge, Frederic Church, and Edwin Booth, assassin John Wilkes s brother and the foremost American actor of his time. He was greatly admired in the nineteenth century, but has not seen the resurgence in appreciation and public interest that many other Hudson River School artists like Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Frederic Church have received. McEntee s father, James, was the resident engineer for the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which brought coal from mines in Pennsylvania to Rondout for shipment to New York City. McEntee today is remembered as much for the journal he kept as he is for his paintings. McEntee was one of the most distinctive American landscape painters of of the 19th century, but has not been sufficiently appreciated or accessible in modern times, even locally in the Hudson Valley. McEntee studied under Frederic Edwin Church, the Hudson River School s most successful painter, was an artist-in-residence at the famous 10th Street Studio Building in New York City, and was a member of the National Academy of Design. Kingston, New York, artist Jervis McEntee (1828 1891) was a prominent member of the loosely connected group of American landscape painters who became known as the Hudson River School. Jervis McEntee and his wife Gertrude liv
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