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Sketching The Adirondacks eBook

Letters From The Wilderness

by Edward I. Pitts
language: english
Publisher: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS, May of 2025 ‧
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In 1851, two aspiring landscape artists, Jervis McEntee 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 McEntee’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 McEntee 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 McEntee 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.

Sketching The Adirondacks

Letters From The Wilderness

by Edward I. Pitts

Property Description
ISBN: 9780815657415
Publisher: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: May of 2025
Language: English
Format: eBook
File Format and Compatibility: PDF para ADE
Collection: New York State Series
Categories: eBooks in English > History > History of America
eBooks in English > Fiction > Epistles and Letters
eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > North America
eBooks in English > Others
EAN: 9780815657415

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