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The Flume, N.H.
Samuel L. Gerry (1813–91)
From the artist’s scrapbook; signed, lower right: “S L Gerry.”; undated, probably 1881
Ink on paper (13 x 10 1/2 in.)
Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Valerie von Rosenvinge and Philip D. Porcella
1991.1055
Gerry stayed at the Profile House in Franconia Notch in 1879 and sketched in the vicinity in 1880 and 1881. He likely met Greenleaf at this time and secured the commission to paint the Flume. In November 1881, the Boston Evening Transcript reported that Gerry returned to Boston with “sketches of that most interesting but difficult subject, the Flume, which he will enlarge for the owner of that unique ravine.”
