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Study of Art
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January 1, 1873
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For more than 35 years, Gerry taught drawing and painting from whatever studio he occupied during the winter. He also accepted students one year in Center Harbor. The Boston Evening Transcript even deemed him in 1866 “very popular as a teacher.” Many of Gerry’s students were women. As he wrote in an 1888 article titled “Women Artists,” “our art schools are filled with women; they outnumber the men a thousand to one.” Yet he also expressed concern that “generally, women have not the advantages of men in the study or pursuit of art.”
