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Spring in Dover, VT by Clifford A. Bayard, c. 1947
January 31 through April 30, the Bennington Museum will have on exhibit “Vermont Impressions”, featuring Impressionist Vermont landscapes from the first half of the twentieth century. Impressionism, a style of painting that originated in France around 1870, took decades to make it to America. Since its arrival, around 1890, it has had a long lived popularity. During the first half of the twentieth century resident and visiting artists made great use of Impressionism’s broken brush work and high keyed palette to paint the rolling hills of Vermont. Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition will feature paintings in the impressionist vein dating largely from 1900-1950, including work by artists such as Clifford A Bayard, Horace Brown, Edwin B. Child, Wallace Weir Fahnestock, C. Gordon Harris, Lorenzo Hatch, William Morris Hunt, Aston Knight, William Hurd Lawrence, Herbert Meyer, Arthur Wilder, and others.
Twist, watercolor on paper, Erin McKenny - artist
Small Distances On view through March 14, Small Distances, watercolors by Erin McKenny in the Regional Arts Gallery of the Bennington Museum. McKenny’s work in a large part reflects and is determined by her family life. Inspired by the primary colors of her children’s toys, books, and games, McKenny’s work investigates the relationships of items not only being enclosed in a setting but also spilling, falling, and squeezing into new spaces. This movement thereby redefines the concepts of space, freedom and restriction. “Through the use of simple forms, my paintings explore moments of stasis or action” states McKenny. “These moments gather significance by their relationship to white space like rain striking a window and rolling down the pane or a brush leaving the page and returning.” McKenny received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art at the University of New Hampshire, and her Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 2001. She has also studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and her work has been on exhibt at Barn East Gallery at Bennington College, Bennington, VT, Crowe T. Brooks Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri, and at Artists Space in New York City.
