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"It was a tie." David Schütz, Vermont’s State Curator, recounts the vote in the Vermont Senate in 1837 to purchase the state’s first piece of art. It was a large oil portrait of George Washington by George Gassner. Lt. Governor David Camp broke the tie to purchase the painting, and as Schütz proudly asserts, "the State of Vermont has been collecting art ever since."
Art of Vermont: The State Collection is a traveling exhibit featuring approximately 50 of the 1,000 pieces accumulated in the State Art Collection over the past 173 years. The Vermont Arts Council, the Office of the State Curator, and the Vermont Department of Buildings & General Services, created the exhibit in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Art in State Buildings Program.
It has been touring Vermont for the past two years and will be making its final appearance at the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier from Feb. 24-April 18.
The exhibit includes works of art that are rarely seen by the general public and the people who own them--the citizens of Vermont. Many of the images from the collection can be viewed on the Vermont Arts Council’s Web site at www.vermontartscouncil.org. Selected pieces can also be downloaded as a computer screen saver.
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