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.

Join us for this free opening celebration: food and drink by couch+cork, and music by the Lost Radio Rounders!