The following description for has been prepared entirely by the current owner, Roberts S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has not been edited by Sloans & Kenyon

Note 1) The following McEntee biographic materials are taken fromAskart.com:

“Biography from The Caldwell Gallery-I:

Jervis McEntee studied art under Frederick Church in New York City from 1850-51 and was a member of the Hudson River School. In 1858 he opened his own studio in NYC.
His works are typically small and detailed and would occasionally include passages of poetry when exhibited. His landscapes of rural New York, particularly the Catskill Mountains, were painted in colors of autumn and winter with a melancholy mood. However, his style did change a little to include some Impressionistic techniques.

McEntee was elected an associate member of the National Academy in 1860 and became a full member the following year. He died in 1891 (Emphasis added)”

Askart.com also observed the following: “Jervis McEntee was a landscape painter, born in 1828 in the Hudson River Valley in Roundout, 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…. 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. (Emphasis added).”

Note: 2) McEntee's works of art, per Askart.com, are owned by 22 museums, including, inter alia, the New York Historical Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, all in NYC, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, both of Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

Note: 3) McEntee who was part of the second generation of the Hudson River School also manifested in the tonalist school of painting, as made manifest by this painting. McEntee's interest in portraying on canvas the atmospherics of the sky and weather making such sky and weather dominant compositional elements, in order to generate for a viewer of his painting “a sense of loneliness” and/or “ a melancholy mood,” (see above) is displayed in this painting. The reasonableness of the above presale estimates of $20,000-$40,000 is warranted and justified by a few of McEntee's paintings that sold at auction, that manifest these McEntee characteristics and intent and demonstrate that the estimates are more than reasonable, allowing for the size of this painting and the smaller size of some of the auctioned paintings, per the following auction records of Askart.com.

Title/Subject: Under A Full Moon Signed. Oil on canvas. 12 in. x 10 in. sold for $11,875 on 03/06/2008 at Sotheby’s, NY

Title/Subject: After the Storm Signed with initials Oil on canvas. 10 in. x 15.20 in. sold for $41,825 on 12/02/2004 at Christie’s, NY

Title/Subject: Autumn Landscape Signed. Oil on canvas. 29.70 in. x 54.20 in. sold for $288,000 on 12/01/2004 at Sotheby’s, NY

Title/Subject: Misty Morning Signed with initials. Oil on canvas. 12.10 in. x 10.30 in. sold for $11,533 on 12/01/2004 at Doyle, NYC

Title/Subject: October in the Catskills Signed. Oil on canvas. 16 in. x 28 in. sold for $47,800 on 05/18/2004 at Christie’s, NY

Title/Subject: River Landscape Signed. Oil on canvas. 24 in. x 19.70 in. sold for $30,000 on 11/28/2000 at Phillips, de Pury & Company, NYC