One Exhibition | Two Venues

More than 200 works of art that capture Vermont’s unique character, people, traditions and landscape prior to the 1970’s from the collection of Lyman Orton, proprietor of the Vermont Country Store, will be unveiled to the public in an unprecedented collaboration by two of Vermont’s most celebrated cultural centers —

Bennington Museum

and

Southern Vermont Arts Center

The Orton Collection focuses primarily on work from 1920 to 1960 including more than 65 artists such as Rockwell Kent, John Clymer, Churchill Ettinger, Paul Sample, Mead Schaeffer, John Atherton, Marion Huse, Luigi Lucioni, Milton Avery, Kyra Markham,

Bernadine Custer, and others.

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Bennington Museum

• On view July 1 — November 5 •

Opening Reception & Meet the Collector:

July 15, 4 — 6pm

featuring food and drink by couch+cork and music by the Lost Radio Rounders

Southern Vermont Arts Center

• On view July 22 — November 5 •

Opening Reception & Meet the Collector:

July 22, 3:30 — 6pm

Purchase the Book

For The Love Of Vermont: The Lyman Orton Collection

Anita Rafael, Lyman Orton

A New Book on the Art of Vermont—

Includes Photographs of Art and Vintage Vermont

For the first time, here is the story of how the proprietor of The Vermont Country Store endeavored over the past forty-five years to retain and repatriate the art of Vermont in his home state. The collection Lyman Orton has built is the most extensive private collection of Vermont fine art by men and women who either already lived here, traveled to Vermont seasonally, or eventually made Vermont their home. All 220 pages are colorfully illustrated, with 107 works of art representing 56 artists who truly captured the Vermont way of life and expressed their love of Vermont.

Text by Vermont author Anita Rafael, with first-person storytelling and recollections by Lyman Orton.