Fern I. Coppedge, Road to Lumberville, 1938, oil on canvas, 17 1/4 x 19 1/4


Daniel Garber, Day in June, 1937, oil on canvas, 27 1/4 x 29 1/4

Painting the Beautiful:
American Impressionist Paintings from
the Michener Art Museum

April 5-August 11, 2008
HUNTER GALLERY

Free Opening Reception

Saturday, April 5 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Beginning in France, Impressionism spread to America, and from the late nineteenth century on, it flourished in art colonies scattered throughout the scenic and rural regions of the country. Among the most notable of these was the colony led by Edward Redfield and centered in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Distinguished for its originality and high quality, the Bucks County School played a major role in the American art world of the 1910s and 1920s.

This exhibition, on loan from the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, features twenty-five works by fifteen Bucks County School painters including Redfield, Fern Coppedge and Daniel Garber. Expanding the picture of Impressionism in America, Painting the Beautiful illustrates some of the stylistic influences on early Vermont Impressionists such as Edwin Child, Wallace W. Fahnestock, and Lorenzo Hatch. By way of contrast, it also reveals how Impressionist painters responded to a landscape that is quite different from that of the Green Mountain State.


Edward Redfield, October, nd, oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 31 3/4




William L. Lathrop, Untitled, nd, oil on canvas board, 15 3/8 x 19 3/8


Edward Redfield, Frozen River, c.1920, oil on canvas, 37 3/8 x 49 1/4


George Sotter, The Windybush Valley, 1939, oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 47 1/4


George Sotter, Coastal View, 1948, oil on board, 21 1/2 x 25 1/2


Robert Spencer, Concrete Bridge, c.1916, oil on canvas, 24 1/2" x 29 1/2"


George Sotter, Hillside Cottage, nd, oil on canvas, 211/2 x 251/2