House by the Sea in Moonlight
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Signed by artist lower right. Biography: Samuel Lancaster Gerry biographical photo A leader of the White Mountain School of painting in the 1840s, Samuel Gerry painted in the Hudso...
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
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H 16.25 in W 13.07 in
Ladies Hiking in the White Mountains by Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813-1891)
Located in New York, NY
Hudson River School landscape of the White Mountains by American artist, Samuel Lancaster Gerry Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813-1891) Ladies Hiking in the White Mountains Oil on canvas...
Oil
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H 17 in W 22 in D 2 in
Antique American Hudson River School Signed White Mountain Valley Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American Hudson River School landscape oil painting by Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813 - 1891). Oil on canvas, circa 1860.
Canvas, Oil
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H 12 in W 8 in D 3 in
“Mountainous Landscape” Samuel L. Gerry (American 1813-1891)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Considered a leader of the White Mountain School, Samuel Lancaster Gerry was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Canvas, Oil
Considered the first major American painting movement, the Hudson River School emerged in the first half of the 19th century with landscape paintings that celebrated the young country’s natural beauty. Most of its leading painters were based in New York City where they exchanged ideas and traveled to the nearby Hudson River Valley and Catskills Mountains to re-create their vistas. At a time when the city was increasingly dense, the Hudson River School artists extolled the vast and pristine qualities of the American landscape, a sentiment that would inform the conservation movement.
American art was dominated by portraiture and historical scenes before Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, began painting the Catskill Mountains in 1825. While the Hudson River School was informed by European art aesthetics, particularly the British focus on the sublime in nature, it was a style imbued with nationalism. The landscape painters who followed and studied under Cole would expand their focus from the Northeastern United States to places across the country, their work shared through prints and portfolios promoting an appreciation for the American wilderness — Niagara Falls, the mountain ranges that dot the American West and more — as the style blossomed during the mid-19th century.
Cole’s student Frederic Edwin Church as well as painters such as Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett, Asher Brown Durand and others became prominent proponents of the Hudson River School. The American art movement also had close ties to the literary world, including to authors like William Cullen Bryant, Henry David Thoreau and James Fenimore Cooper who wrote on similar themes. Although by the early 1900s the style had waned, and modernism would soon guide the following decades of art in the United States, the Hudson River School received renewed interest in the late 20th century for the dramatic way its artists portrayed the world.
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