Mount Desert Island, Maine

1864

Jervis McEntee

Artist, American, 1828 - 1891

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist [1828-1891]; (his estate sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, 29-30 March 1892, 2nd day, no. 89, as On Mt. Desert). Private collection.[1] (Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York); acquired 1999 by John Wilmerding; gift 2016 to NGA.
[1] According to the catalogue of the 1997-1998 exhibition at Beacon Hill Fine Art in New York that included the painting.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

  • McEntee & Company, Beacon Hill Fine Art, New York, 1997-1998, fig. 8.

1999

  • Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, 1999, repro.

2004

  • American Masters from Bingham to Eakins. The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no. 23, repro.

Inscriptions

lower center: Mt. Desert / July 17. ' 64.

Wikidata ID

Q46629296

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