Gallery sights in Vermont
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St Johnsbury Athenaeum
Home to the country’s oldest art gallery still in its original form, the Athenaeum was founded in 1871 when Horace Fairbanks gave the town a library. Comprising some 9000 finely bound books of classic world literature, the library was soon complemented by the gallery, built around its crown jewel, Albert Bierstadt’s 10ft-by-15ft painting, Domes of the Yosemite. The rest of the collection consists of works by such Hudson River School painters as Asher B Durand, Worthington Whittredge and Jasper Crospey as well as dozens of copies of old masters. Bierstadt is said to have returned to the gallery every summer until his death to touch up his masterpiece.
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TW Wood Art Gallery
This gallery, at E State St on the Vermont College campus, was founded in 1895 by Thomas Waterman Wood (1823–1903), a native of Montpelier, who gained a regional reputation for his portraits and genre paintings. The museum has a large collection of Wood’s art as well as Depression-era paintings. Changing exhibits, especially of arts created in Vermont, fill the main gallery.
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West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park
Don’t miss the winding, sculpture-filled paths along the river’s edge at the West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park. A captivating collection of contemporary sculpture, paintings, photography and fountains fill this gallery and sculptural park, found 1 mile up Mountain Rd from Stowe village.
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Helen Day Art Center
In the heart of the village, the Helen Day Art Center is a gently provocative community art center with rotating traditional and avant-garde exhibits. It also sponsors ‘Exposed, ’ an annual townwide outdoor sculptural show that takes place from mid-July to mid-October.
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Straw Corner Shops
Stowe has no shortage of galleries and fine craft shops with artists of local and international renown. Within the Straw Corner Shops offerings are surreal, traditional, contemplative, sometimes prankish and always finely hewn.
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Robert Paul Galleries
On your way up Mountain Rd, pause to take a gander at Robert Paul Galleries, with its acclaimed collection of painting, photography and sculpture.
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