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Mount Washington from the Saco Ford, North Conway in Autumn
Samuel L. Gerry (1813–91)
Signed and dated, lower left center, on rock: “S. L. Gerry 1858”
Oil on canvas (20 x 30 in.)
Private collection
Gerry and other artists introduced the public to the natural beauty of New Hampshire through scenes like this one, showing Mount Washington in the distance rising above the Saco River at North Conway. By the time he created this painting, Gerry had been coming to the White Mountains for more than 20 years, and his landscape paintings of New Hampshire had been widely sold, mainly to private buyers who displayed his work in their homes and offices.
