Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1864

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 27.1 × 40.4 cm (10 11/16 × 15 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Wilmerding in honor of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz

Accession Number

2016.141.1

Artists / Makers

Jervis McEntee (artist) American, 1828 - 1891

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Berry-Hill Galleries
Wilmerding, John, Professor

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.