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May’s Pond, Roxbury, Massachusetts
Samuel L. Gerry (1813–91)
Unsigned and undated, 1858
Oil on canvas (14 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.)
Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Osgood
1983.401
By the 1850s Gerry and his family had moved from Malden to the Highlands section of Roxbury, a suburb of Boston. He later opened a studio in his home there. In 1858 an art columnist for the Boston Evening Transcript noted that Gerry was finding picturesque scenes to paint even in the Boston suburbs. Gerry exhibited May’s Pond that year in at least three venues: the Boston Athenaeum, the New Bedford Art Exhibition, and the National Academy of Design in New York City.
