Diary, Volume IV

Object Details

Creator: McEntee, Jervis, 1828-1891
Subject: Avery, Samuel Putnam; Bierstadt, Albert; Booth, Edwin Thomas; Brown, John George; Casilear, John William; Champney, James Wells; Church, Frederic Edwin; Durand, Asher Brown; Godwin, Parke; Hall, George Henry; Hart, William McDougal; Hubbard, Richard William; Inness, George; Johnson, Eastman; Johnston, John Taylor; McEntee, Jervis; Olyphant, Robert M.; Page, William; Perry, E. W. (Enoch Wood); Reid, Whitelaw; Taylor, Bayard; Vaux, Calvert; Vaux, Mary McEntee; Weir, John F. (John Ferguson); Whittredge, Worthington; American Art Association; Art Institute of Chicago; Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine; National Academy of Design (U.S.); Ortgies & Co.; Rogers, Peet Company, New York; Union League Club (New York, N.Y.)

Place of publication, production, or execution: No place, unknown, or undetermined
Physical Description: Diary : 1 v. : handwritten ; 28 x 21 cm.
Summary: The fourth 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, Volume IV, 1883 June 16- 1889 July 31. 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

1883 June 16- 1889 July 31

Place: Arkville, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Detroit, Mich.; Louisville, Ky.; Mexico; Minneapolis, Minn.; Nantucket, Mass.

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