Artist’s Brook, North Conway, New Hampshire
Artist: Samuel Lancaster Gerry (American, 1813-1891)
Date: about 1857
Dimensions:
Frame: 31 5/8 × 45 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (80.3 × 115.6 × 6.4 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 1947.55
Label Text:The stream depicted here, a tributary of the Saco River, was a favorite spot for painters, especially in the 1850s. The view looks across the Conway meadows toward Mount Washington in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire. Benjamin Champney, a leading member of the White Mountain group of landscape painters, reminisced in 1899, “North Conway and the neighborhood of Artists’ Brook at one time became almost as famous as Barbizon and the Forest of Fontainebleau [for its landscape views]…Dozens of umbrellas were dotted about under which sat artists from all sections of the country.” Boston artist Samuel Lancaster Gerry depicts just such an artist, seated on the banks of the brook, sketching under the shade of an umbrella.
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