McEntee, Jervis (1828-1891) American Artist Hudson River School Painting. Oil on Canvas - Signed lower left '70. Sale Stamp on reverse. Titled "In The Autumn Woods" Canvas measures 13.5x14 in ornate frame to overall size of 24x27. Jervis McEntee was loyally hinged to the Hudson School of painters and his numerous landscape of the areas in and around the Catskills and along the Hudson River leave a visual legacy of the natural beauty of the area in the 19th century. Although he was by most accounts one of the lesser-known artists of the Hudson School, he gained valuable experience as an apprentice to Frederick Church during his formative years, and he traveled with many of the Hudson School masters like Sandford Gifford, John Weir and Eastman Johnson. He left a trove of diaries now conserved at the Smithsonian that offer a rich chronicle of what life was like in Gilded Age America. The present work was one of the numerous oils probably painted en plein air or based on sketches. While many Hudson School painters were proned to romantic embellishment McEntee was focused on representing the purity of the view in front of his easel and selected subjects like forest ravines with felled trees in a more transitional time in the season.

Fair - Requires repair to canvas. Tear and pinhole in photographs.