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Throughout his career, Gerry painted genre, portraits, and animals, as well as landscapes. In this scene, Gerry captures a typical day on the farm. A young boy is at the well pumping water into a trough, while on the porch a woman holds a broom, perhaps caught in the act of tidying up for the company approaching on horseback in the distance.
Exhibition History"The Life and Work of Artist Samuel L. Gerry," New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH, March 17, 2022 - August 6, 2022.
Artist
Samuel Lancaster Gerry
(American, 1813 - 1891)
Farmyard Scene
Date1839
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 25 3/4 × 33 × 1 3/4 in. (65.4 × 83.8 × 4.4 cm)
Sight: 21 5/8 × 29 in. (54.9 × 73.7 cm)
Object numberN0401.1961
Credit LineCollections of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextLike many of his contemporaries, Samuel Lancaster Gerry had no formal training but was a sign and decorative painter in 1835 and 1836. He made the ritualistic trip abroad to study paintings of the masters for the following three years before opening a studio in Boston in 1840. Gerry worked mostly in New England using his studio in Boston. Throughout his career, Gerry painted genre, portraits, and animals, as well as landscapes. In this scene, Gerry captures a typical day on the farm. A young boy is at the well pumping water into a trough, while on the porch a woman holds a broom, perhaps caught in the act of tidying up for the company approaching on horseback in the distance.
Exhibition History"The Life and Work of Artist Samuel L. Gerry," New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH, March 17, 2022 - August 6, 2022.
On View
Not on viewc. 1955
c. 1890
c. 1949
c. 1900-1915
