biografía de Samuel Lancaster GERRY (1813-1891)

Lugar de nacimiento: Boston

Lugar de defunción: Boston

Direcciones: Boston

Profesión: Landscape, portrait, genre, still life, and animal painter

Estudios: mostly self-taught

Exposiciones: frequently at Boston Athenaeum; PAFA; NAD, 1865-82; American Art-Union; Boston AC, 1875-1891

Asociaciones: Boston Art Club, 1854 (a founder, pres.)

Comentarios: Widely regarded as the leader of the White Mountain School during the 1840s, he appears to have assimilated art vision and techniques from A. B. Durand and Thomas Cole, as well as from contacts made during a c.1837-40 trip to France, England, Switzerland, and Italy. Upon his return in 1840, he set up his studio in Boston, from which he launched on many trips to New Hampshire"s Lake District and its White Mountains. Gerry also made two return trips to Italy, in 1850-54 and 1873-75.

Fuentes: G&W; CAB; Bolton, Portrait Painters in Oil"; Clement and Hutton; Portfolio (Oct. 1943), 44, repros.; Boston BD 1841-42, 1854-59; Swan, BA; Rutledge, PA; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU. More recently, see Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 65-69; For Beauty and for Truth, 53 (w/repro.); 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 158; The Boston AC.