Winter Sunshine
Winter Sunshine

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Winter Sunshine

Jervis McEntee, 1828–1891; born and died Rondout, New York
2008-4
McEntee and La Farge produced work expressing distinctly different sensibilities, with the slightly older McEntee adhering to the established methods of realistic landscape painting and La Farge embracing a more modern, aestheticized sensibility. These two sketches embody this shift. Winter Sunshine is concerned primarily with representation, its brushwork serving essentially to delineate form. Snow Weather, by contrast, emphasizes facture—the painterly means by which the image is produced—wherein the work’s expressive brushstrokes seem of equal import to the scene depicted.

Information

Title
Winter Sunshine
Maker
Jervis McEntee
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
14 x 22.9 cm. (5 1/2 x 9 in.) frame: 28.2 × 37 × 7.3 cm (11 1/8 × 14 9/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953, in honor of his granddaughter, Beverly Allison Milberg.
Object Number
2008-4
Inscription
inscribed with title and numbered 63 on the tacking edge.
Culture
American
Type
oil paintings, paintings
Materials
oil paint, canvas
Subject
landscapes (representations), suns, trees, brown, winter, snow, light, green (color), blue, white (color), shadows

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