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Merrill Mountain Home and Moosilauke Inn Annex
Samuel L. Gerry (1813–91)
Signed, lower right: “S L Gerry”; undated, circa 1890
Watercolor on paper (22 3/4 x 18 3/4 in., framed)
Collection of P. Andrews and Linda H. McLane
During the last decade of Gerry’s life, he experimented with media other than oil, including watercolor, and began teaching these media as well. He is not known to have worked in this western portion of the White Mountains before 1890, when he spent from July to late September at the new and fashionable Queen Anne-style hotel known as the Moosilauke, which opened in 1886. It was situated in a part of Warren called Breezy Point, high on a spur of Mount Moosilauke, alongside the Mount Moosilauke Carriage Road. This grand hotel, the main building of which stood to the left of this scene, offered magnificent views of Mounts Moosilauke, Jim, and Waternomee, seen here in autumn splendor, from left to right.
