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Fern I. Coppedge,
Road to Lumberville, 1938, oil on canvas, 17 1/4 x 19
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Daniel Garber,
Day in June, 1937, oil on canvas, 27 1/4 x 29 1/4
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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.
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Edward Redfield,
October, nd, oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 31 3/4
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