(rshsdepot) Art of the River...Art of the Rails

["Kenyon Karl" <kenyon_@_getglobal.net>]

PRESS RELEASE for  Calendar, Features, News

Contact for further Information:   Ed Janeway
295-7588(Ed.Janeway_@_Valley.Net)
                                                          Norman Miller
649-5296


Art of the River...Art of the Rails, an exhibit of paintings and prints by
14 distinguished Upper Valley artists, will be on display Friday May 31 to
Monday July 15 at the New England Transportation Museum, in the Amtrak
Station and Vermont Welcome Center in White River Junction, VT. A reception
open to the public begins at 4:30 p.m. Friday with a Gallery Talk by
Professor Robert McGrath of Dartmouth College entitled “River, Rails, and
Regional Art”
Hours of opening for the exhibit and the museum 9:30-3:00, Tuesdays;
9:30-12:30(Wed.-Saturdays).

The works illustrate the rich tradition of railroads, boats, bridges, and
industrial landscapes in the development of the Upper Connecticutt River
Valley. The Museum, which opened last September, displays memorabilia
celebrating the history of the region as a major railroad center dating from
1850.

Featured works will include etchings by Brian Cohen, artistic director of
the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River and Art teacher at Putney
School, and reproductions from the work of Paul Smaple, noted artist in
residence at Dartmouth College during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Norman Miller, Museum curator, and Sandra Hayward, Coordinator, have
assembled an outstanding collection of work by them other outstanding area
artists . such as Dale Stein of Windsor, Retired Distinguished Teaching
Professor of Drawing and Design at the State University of New York,  Rick
Harden whose work has been displayed at the Cooper Hewitt Museum and
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; and David Plowden, probably
America’s pre-eminent living railroad photgrapher with 20 books to his
credit.

Works represented include paintings by  Charlie Hunter, painter and designer
of Weathesfield, owner of Hunter Studio in Bellows Falls; Liam Sullivan,
painter, printer, and teacher at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in
Manchester;  Jay Barrett, architect of Fairlee, who has an extensive
collection of slides on railroading in the Upper Valley, and Russ Barber of
Norwich whose combined interest in railroading and photography has taken him
to China, Mongolia, and Cuba. His work including regional post card art will
be arranged in a special gallery.

Six of the 40 works in the exhibit are on loan from the Hood Museum at
Dartmouth,, other organizations and individuals in the Upper Valley.

Directions to the Museum: Follow signs off Interstates #89 and #91, Routes 5
and 4 to the Amtrak Station in Downtown White River Junction, VT.

Other exhibiting artists, all well known in their field, include Harry
Dayton, Edwin Fulwider, Robert Weaver, Jerry Pfohl, Herb Rather, and John
Semple.



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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org