Vermont

Arthur JonesThe Southern Vermont Arts Center celebrates local Dorset Artist Arthur Jones

One signature Arthur Jones painting (among a dozen genres) is a Vermont landscape-classic barn buildings set in spacious fields, backed by soft-outline mountains and a cloud-strewn sky. Rendered in uncounted variations of structures' shape and color, of seasons, weather, and day's light, these works are perennially popular and represent a store of artistic output that stretches over more than a half-century in the life of this Dorset artist and native. » read more

By Ellen Ecker Ogden
Photography by Hubert Schriebl

Chris MorrowChris Morrow is looking to do more than merely sell books. He wants his locally owned Northshire Bookstore to be a placewhich can act as an underpinning of a better world.

Chris Morrow may well have the most coveted job in the world among people who love books.  Sure, it's a desk job, and his desk is a makeshift affair; with two tables squeezed together to form an "L" piled with tall stacks of books, and a laptop computer balanced on an old typing table. "I love books," admits Chris Morrow, president and general manager of the Northshire Bookstore, which his parents, Barbara and Ed, started in 1976, "But they have never been my sole focus."

The peacock blue walls contain an eclectic mix of paintings, weavings, prayer flags and sculptures; all are evidence that his interests clearly go beyond just books; there is Tibetan Buddhism, world travel, family and the community, all evidence of the untraditional path he had taken before deciding to return to » read more

By Frederica Templeton
Images courtesy of The American Museum of Fly Fishing

PleisnerThe land between Green and Taconic mountain ranges is a place of small rivers and streams, charming old played-out farms, fields and pastures that have gone by, crumbling stone walls, and abandoned orchards.  Still, it is our land and we love it. It is also iconic country to legions of fly fishermen and upland hunters even though most of them have never been here.  But they have seen this country painted superbly and with undeniable feeling.  Have, in other words, seen it through the eyes of a great artist who fished and hunted this little corner of the world, loved it intensely, and put that love into his paintings.

Ogden Pleissner never thought of himself as someone who did "sporting art."  He was not, emphatically, one of those hacks who turned out stylized stuff for the covers of catalogues and the numbered print racket.  He considered himself, with absolute legitimacy, a "painter of landscapes who also liked to hunt and fish."  His work has been compared, with justification, to that of Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth.  » read more