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About Samuel Gerry
This versatile artist, mostly self-taught, became a founder and one of the first presidents of the Boston Art Club (1854). In the beginning he was inspired by Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand, then he spent three years in Europe (1837-40). In the 1840s, Gerry was associated with the White Mountain School. Harvest Time, Red Hill, Squam Lake, New Hampshire (ca. 1857) is pure Hudson River School with its stable, vertical tree on the left and an open expansive panorama through which the eye is gently led into the distance. Related is Crossing the Bridge, which shows a lush forest landscape dominated by a stream. A woman holding a parasol is crossing a rustic bridge toward a clearing to join her seated companion. Gerry made two more trips to Italy (1850-54; 1874-75). At the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition he exhibited American Tourists, most likely painted on the third trip to Italy. In 1885, Gerry wrote Reminiscences of the Boston Art Club and Notes on Art. |
Paintings by Samuel Gerry
| Crossing the Bridge |
| Oil on canvas: 12 x 20 1/2 in. |
| signed: lower left |
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