Back in the Studio
Introduction • Life • Art • Gallery • Learn More • Acknowledgments
“S. L. Gerry, who has spent the past season at the White Mountains, has brought back a fine collection of studies”
— Boston Daily Globe
“S. L. Gerry, who has spent the past season at the White Mountains, has brought back a fine collection of studies”
— Boston Daily Globe
Back in Boston during the fall and winter, Samuel L. Gerry transformed his sketches into finished works, usually working in oils but sometimes exploring other mediums like watercolors.
The location of his studio changed from year to year, but he typically sought spaces where he could interact with other creative talents, such as the Mercantile Library Association, which regularly hosted artist receptions and other events. In 1862, he took rooms at the Tremont Street Studio Building, home to artists of all types. Their rooms were open to the public and the press, particularly for special evening receptions and “Open House Saturdays.” Paintings hung on the walls or were displayed around the rooms on easels, transforming the spaces into impromptu galleries. The Tremont Studio became, as one reporter put it, “a perfect hive of artists,” and Gerry reveled in the collaborative atmosphere while creating some of his most celebrated landscapes.
Horticultural and Studio Buildings, Tremont Street
From a stereoview by John P. Soule (1827-1904)
circa 1865
Collection of the Boston Public Library
