Sketching the Adirondacks
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American landscape art
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hiking
Hudson River Valley
Hudson Valley
letters
New York State
New York State history
nineteenth-century art
painting
regional
sketching
The Adirondacks
travel writing
travelogue
Product details
- ISBN 9780815611769
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2025
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1851, two aspiring landscape artists, Jervis McEntree and Joseph Tubby, set out for the Adirondacks on a sketching expedition that would test not only their mettle as artists but as outdoorsmen. Heading into the still-rugged wilderness, not yet fully explored and sparsely inhabited, the two artists ventured across about one hundred seventy miles of terrain, sketching what they saw for future painting reference.
In Sketching the Adirondacks, the artists’ unique journey is brought to life by author Edward Pitts, who drew on McEntree’s journal to reimagine the expedition as a series of letters home to friends and family. These fictionalized letters, all richly annotated with historical facts and context about the region, recount the pair’s real adventures and the artistic inspirations that inspired their work as Hudson River School artists. Following their trip McEntree and Tubby were artists first, not natural outdoorsmen, and the letters describe the challenges they faced, as well as many of the famous guides and Adirondack characters who assisted them during the trip. Sketching the Adirondacks renders McEntree and Tubby's journey in vivid detail, and reveals how their artwork inspired so many others, blending a unique creative approach with rigorous historical accuracy.
In Sketching the Adirondacks, the artists’ unique journey is brought to life by author Edward Pitts, who drew on McEntree’s journal to reimagine the expedition as a series of letters home to friends and family. These fictionalized letters, all richly annotated with historical facts and context about the region, recount the pair’s real adventures and the artistic inspirations that inspired their work as Hudson River School artists. Following their trip McEntree and Tubby were artists first, not natural outdoorsmen, and the letters describe the challenges they faced, as well as many of the famous guides and Adirondack characters who assisted them during the trip. Sketching the Adirondacks renders McEntree and Tubby's journey in vivid detail, and reveals how their artwork inspired so many others, blending a unique creative approach with rigorous historical accuracy.
Edward I. Pitts is a retired attorney and federal administrative law judge. He is the author of Beaver River Country: An Adirondack History. His articles on Adirondack history have appeared in Adirondac Magazine, Adirondack Life, LOCALadk, and the Adirondack Almanack.
