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Creator:
McEntee, Jervis, 1828-1891  Search this
Subject:
Bierstadt, Albert  Search this
Blum, Robert Frederick  Search this
Booth, Edwin Thomas  Search this
Brown, John George  Search this
Church, Frederic Edwin  Search this
Cooper, Peter  Search this
Dielman, Frederick  Search this
Gifford, James C.  Search this
Gifford, Sanford Robinson  Search this
Hall, George Henry  Search this
Hart, William McDougal  Search this
Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander)  Search this
Hubbard, Richard William  Search this
Huntington, Daniel  Search this
Johnson, Eastman  Search this
McEntee, Jervis  Search this
Norton, Charles Eliot  Search this
Perry, E. W. (Enoch Wood)  Search this
Robbins, Horace Wolcott Jr.  Search this
Shattuck, Aaron Draper  Search this
Vanderlyn, John  Search this
Vaux, Calvert  Search this
Ward, John Quincy Adams  Search this
Weir, John F. (John Ferguson)  Search this
Whittredge, Worthington  Search this
Wood, Thomas Waterman  Search this
Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
National Academy of Design (U.S.)  Search this
Type:
Writings
Place:
Bismarck, N.D.
Chicago, Ill.
Fargo, N.D.
Greece
Me.
New Haven, Conn.
New Orleans, La.
Quebec, Canada
St. Paul, Minn.
Date:
1878 Dec. 15-1883 June 15
Place of publication, production, or execution:
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Physical Description:
Diary : 1 v. : handwritten ; 25 x 19 cm.
Summary:
The third of the five volumes that make up the diaries of Jervis McEntee. He writes about the New York City art community, with his friends Henry Blackburn (art writer and editor of London Society and Academy Notes), Edwin Booth (actor), William Bryant (poet and editor), Frederic E. Church (his teacher), Sanford Gifford, Eastman Johnson, John F. Kensett, Frederick Law Olmstead (landscape architect), Bayard Taylor (writer for the New York Tribune and author), Launt Thompson, John Q.A. Ward, John F. Weir, and Worthington Whittredge. He includes visits to artists' studios and social engagements such as concerts, theater, dinner parties, and lectures in the company of his friends or with his wife, Gertrude. He describes numerous sketching trips in the Catskills and the Maine woods with fellow artists and their involvement with the Century Club and the National Academy's Council. McEntee also describes his work, family life, transactions of paintings, and continuous financial troubles.
Citation:
Jervis McEntee. Diary, Vol. III, 1878 Dec. 15-1883 June 15. Jervis McEntee papers, 1796, 1848-1905. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Use Note:
Current copyright status is undetermined
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
Topic:
Finances, Personal  Search this
Sketching  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA)5250
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Data Source:
Archives of American Art
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