Jervis mcentee biography of abraham lincoln
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Only Kingston studio remains today of Hudson River School artist Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a Hudson River School landscape artist who was born in in the Village of Rondout, which later became part of the City of Kingston. His father, James McEntee, worked as a resident engineer on the Delaware and Hudson (D&H) Canal, a mile waterway that ran from Pennsylvania to its southern terminus in the Rondout.
The elder McEntee purchased 52 acres of undeveloped land on today’s West Chestnut Street in the city and built a house there. He also laid out building lots and sold them over time. In , his artist son would also erect a house and studio on the family property, where he lived with his wife Gertrude. As a boy, Jarvis McEntee displayed an interest in art and converted the family home’s attic into an art studio.
He attended Clinton Liberal Institute in upstate New York in and when he decided to pursue a career in art, he studied under Frederic Edwin Church of Olana, perhaps the m
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The Lincoln Assassination on this Day (September 12 &#; September 25)
Posted onSeptember 26, byDave Taylor
Taking inspiration from one of my favorite books, John Wilkes Booth: Day bygd Day by Art Loux, I&#;m documenting a different Lincoln assassination or Booth family event each day on my Twitter konto. In addition to my daglig #OTD (On This Day) tweets, each Sunday I&#;ll be posting them here for the past week. If you click on any of the pictures in the tweet, it will take you to its individual tweet page on Twitter where you can click to make the images larger and easier to see. Since Twitter limits the number of characters you can type in a tweet, inom often include text boxes as pictures to provide more upplysning. I hope you enjoy reading about the different events that happened over the last week.
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Collection inventory
Overview of the Collection | |
| Creator: | Johnson, Eastman, |
| Title: | Eastman Johnson Letters |
| Inclusive Dates: | |
| Quantity: | 6 folders (SC) |
| Abstract: | Papers of the American artist, portrait painter. Outgoing correspondence in which Johnson discusses finished portraits (Florence Levy) as well as work in progress (John Elderkin), and a letter to painter Jervis McEntee. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY |
Biographical History
Eastman Johnson () was an American artist and portrait painter, best known for his paintings of landscapes and scenes from everyday life (particularly Maine) and his portraits of everyday people. He also painted portraits of prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He studied in Holland (and was sometimes known as "t