Gay Brothers Mill

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Name/Title

Gay Brothers Mill

Entry/Object ID

VHS-A-54

Description

Landscape. Fall foliage, mill in center next to river with waterfall, road next to mill, small building next to road. Mountains in background. Trees next to river and by road.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil

Subject

Gay Brothers' Mill

Subject Place

Town

Tunbridge

County

Orange County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Context

Arthur Wilder, an fairly well-know landscape artist and former manager of the Woodstock Inn, created this work as the frontispiece of a VHS publication on the Gay Brothers' woolen Mills. Though much of Wilder's work reflected the existing landscape he observed on painting trips, this particular piece depicts the original Tunbridge Mill as it would have appeared in the 1870s. Founded in Tunbridge in 1869, the Gay Brothers company quickly expanded to larger Mills first in Cavendish and then in Ludlow. Going out of business in 1944, the publication and painting helped document the impressive run of a Vermont wool enterprise.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Unknown

Made/Created

Artist

Wilder, Arthur Brickett, Sr. (1857-1949)

Date made

1943

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

10 in

Width

18-1/4 in

Relationships

Related Publications

Publication

Neither Wealth nor Poverty