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Old Man of the Mountains near Profile House, White Mts.
Samuel L. Gerry (1813–91)
Signed and dated, lower left: “S. L. Gerry / 1886”
Oil on canvas (61 x 48 in.)
Courtesy of the Sullivan Museum and History Center of Norwich University, Northfield, Vt., gift of Mabelle Furst Greenleaf in memory of Charles H. Greenleaf
1924.1
At the same time Gerry worked on this Old Man painting, which had been commissioned by Charles Greenleaf, he also created several other depictions of the Old Man of the Mountain, although he habitually misnamed the rock formation by adding an “s” to the end of the word “Mountain.” Several of his paintings featuring the Old Man are dated to this period, and he experimented in watercolors as well as oils in his efforts to capture the Old Man’s likeness.
