The Festival:
A Snowy Evening
November 29 through December 30
In 2020. Bennington Museum will present Robert Frost, At Present in Vermont. This major exhibition, on view June 27 through December 3, 2020, will examine Frost's life and work in the context of the landscape and culture of Bennington County from 1920-1938. Robert Frost moved to Shaftsbury, Vermont in 1920, intending to establish an apple orchard. During the 20 years he lived there, he interacted with such local cultural figures as Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Rockwell Kent and wrote some of his best-known poems, including the iconic, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” It is from this Poet Laureate's writings, perhaps his most famous, that the Museum has drawn its theme for the 2019 Festival.
A major part of this year’s seasonal celebration is the presentation of works by thirty-one regional artists who have responded to the words of Robert Frost. Their work will be on display in the Parmelee and Limric Galleries beginning November 29. These will be available in a closed-bid auction beginning November 29 through December 22 at 4 pm. The winning bid will be split with 50% going to the artist and 50% going to the Museum.
As works in the closed-bid auction become available, they will be posted here. Take a look and then stop in the museum to place your bid or write [email protected] You can also fax your bid to 802-442-8305. These will be considered legal and binding bids. Bids by phone are not allowed. All bids that are placed in person will be opened by two people and date stamped. The person with the highest offer will be declared the winner and be contacted by December 23, 2019 for payment and to arrange a pick-up time. In the event of a tie, the bid placed first will be the winner. To avoid a tie, we urge you to bid an odd amount such as $586.54 rather than $500.
The Festival is supported by:
Mike Glier
Wild Ass, 1986
Charcoal, conte crayon, gesso on paper
62 x 90 inches
Opening bid - $8000
Mike Glier
Study 3 for Apple, October 7, 2001, 2003
Gouache pen on paper
22 x 30 inches
Opening bid - $250
Anima Katz
Mile Around Woods, North Bennington, Vermont, 2019
Oil on canvas board
16 x 20 inches
Opening bid, $1200
Paul Katz
Whose Woods These Are, 2019
Oil, sand, canvas
36 x 36 inches
Opening bid, $2000
Anna Crabtree
Road, Pine, Snow, River, 2017
Charcoal, watercolor, newspaper
Opening Bid: $250
Colin Brant
Woods/Winter, 2019
Oil on canvas, 15 x 25 inches
Opening bid: $800
Donna Wynbrandt
Watching His Woods Fill Up with Snow, 2019
Fade and fraud resistant ink on
cotton rag paper, restored frame
Opening bid: $250
Kevin Bubriski
Sunflower #1, 2019
Cyanotype print
Opening bid: $950
Peter Crabtree
After Frost: Do, Does, Did
Archival Pigment Print
Opening Bid: $450
Matt Chinian
#941 Sleeping Giant, 2017
Oil on canvas panel
Opening bid: $800
Katie Cleaver
Frozen Lake
Rutilated quartz, topaz, rose, yellow, green,
and white gold, silver
Opening bid: $1000
Daniel Ladd
Wine Glass Mushroom
14 x18 x 7 inches deep
Opening bid: $800
Daniel Ladd
BLESSTHANKYOU (root words)
3 x 10 inches (less than an inch high) on board
Opening bid: $50
Michael Abrams
Steppe Brook
Oil on canvas, 22 x 16 inches
Opening bid: $1200
Jill Van Orden
Monotype
Akua inks on cotton paper
Opening Bid: $150
Marcy Hermansader
Untimeliness, 2019
Colored pencil, gouache, acrylic, foil
16 x18 inches (unframed) 23.5 x25 inches (framed)
Opening bid: $700
Greg Winterhalter
After Snowstorm, the Way Home, 2019
Oil on canvas. 24 x24 inches
Opening Bid - $550
Liz Howe
Soft Red Ground
Clay and mixed media
Opening Bid: $250
Stella Ehrich
The Path
Oil on board
Opening bid: $1,500
Emily Gold
Reverie, 2019
Canson paper, Fabriano watercolor paper, book board,
colored pencil, oil pastel, PVA glue
Starting bid: $325
Mildred Beltré
Miles to Go, 2019
Walnut ink and color pencil, 26.5 x40 inches
Opening Bid: $1,500
Tony Conner
For a Stroll
Transparent watercolor on paper
Opening bid - $750
Mark Barry
The Gazers
Oil on canvas, 50 x 44 inches
Opening Bid: $5000
Mark Barry
Devourers of Apples
Oil on paper
Opening Bid: $500
J Blackwell
Plastic Basket Drawing, 2019
Ink on plastic
Opening bid: $800
Mary Ruefle
From Here to Eternity
11” x 17,” Letterpress type and
wood engraving (by Barry Moser) on paper
Opening bid: $75
Erin McKenny
Darkest Evening, 2019
Acrylic on spruce cone, 4.5 x 1.75 inches
Opening bid: $200
Harry Orlyk
The Time was Evening in the Pullman, 2019
Oil on linen
Opening Bid: $5,200
Ursula C. McCarty
At Present, 2019
Printed and resist-dyed fabrics, found fabrics,
cotton thread, glass beads, sequins, recycled frames
22.5 x 36.5 inches
Opening bid: $1500
Joshua Primmer
Starflower
Cast and assembled porcelain
Opening Bid: $950
Rhonda Ratray
Not so fragmentary blue
Acrylic on watercolor paper
Opening Bid: $200
Rhonda Ratray
White death
Papercut, painted spider in a shadowbox
Opening Bid: $200
Rhonda Ratray
I-deal
Acrylic on watercolor paper vintage pyrographic frame
Opening Bid: $150
Rhonda Ratray
At one stroke (of a Match)
Acrylic on watercolor paper
Opening Bid: $150
Rhonda Ratray
Robert Frost, a portrait
Relief print with paper cut star banner mat
Opening Bd: $150
Matthew Perry
With Easy Sweep of Wind
Sumac, oil paint
Opening bid$ $580
Amy Podmore
Escaping Smoke, 2017
Found aluminum object hand-made porcelain
Opening bid: $1,600
Amy Podmore
Audience # 79, 2018
Plaster cast of basket, found object, electric motor
Opening bid: $800