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Sketching Moat Mountain from the Artist’s Camp, or The Intervale, North Conway
Samuel L. Gerry (1813–91)
Signed, lower left: “S L Gerry.”; titled on nameplate: “The Intervale, North Conway”; undated
Oil on canvas (14 x 24 1/2 in.)
Collection of P. Andrews and Linda H. McLane
In Gerry’s early years as a landscape artist, he favored horizontal compositions and expansive scenes, as in this example. He skillfully leads the viewer to look from the woman artist, seated on a wall by a camp fire in the foreground, across the flat North Conway interval in the middle ground to Moat Mountain and White Horse Ledge in the distance. Although sales records show that the painting has been known by both titles listed here for some time, the origin and meaning of the reference to an “artist’s camp” is as yet unknown.
