Object number2010.3.1

Clouds

Date1870

Artist Jervis McEntee (American, 1828-1891)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 8 x 13 in. (20.3 x 33 cm)
Framed: 13 1/2 x 18 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. (34.3 x 46.7 x 4.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ellen G. Milberg, class of 1960, on the occasion of her fiftieth class reunion

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Painting

InscribedOn recto, by artist, incised lower right: 1870; exhibition information printed on a Debra Force label affixed to the reverse of frame

BibliographyVedder, Lee A., Kerry Dean Carso, and David Schuyler. Jervis McEntee: Painter-Poet of the Hudson River School. New York: Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, p. 59, pl. 8; Tonalism: Pathway from the Hudson River School to Modern Art. Albany, NY: New York State Museum, 2019, p. 7, 17ProvenanceDescended in the family of the artist;
Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., New York;
purchased by Ellen G. Milberg
Exhibition HistoryA Diary Illuminated: Oil Sketches by Jervis McEntee, Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY, November 12 - December 21, 2007;

Jervis McEntee: Painter-Poet of the Hudson River School, The Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, August 26 - December 13, 2015;

Tonalism: Pathway from the Hudson River School to Modern Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, August 28 - December 8, 2019
Description A sky filled with fluffy and wispy clouds in hues of blue, pink, light grey, and white with a band of rolling purple, blue, and green hills below. At the upper center a small area of deeper blue sky is visible.

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