Name: An afternoon with Edward Pitts, author of "Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness"
Start: 2025-09-06T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 63 Main Street, Kingston, NY, United States, New York 12402

An afternoon with Edward Pitts, author of "Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness"

Announcing! A lecture by Edward Pitts, author of "Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness," which tells the story of Kingston artists Jervis McEntee and Joseph Tubby's 1851 sketching expedition.
Time:
Saturday, September 6th
1 PM
Location:
Matthewis Persen House Museum
74 John Street
Kingston, NY
This event is free. No RSVP is required.
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.
About the presenter: 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.
Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness by Edward Pitts is available now from Syracuse University Press: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/8084/sketching-the-adirondacks/