Name/Title
Dashing through the SnowEntry/Object ID
2009.2.5Description
Woodcut print showing a couple in a horse-drawn sleigh waving to a man wearing snowshoes. There are groups sledding down a hill in the middle ground and mountains in the background. At the bottom is the label, "DASHING through the SNOW: Winter travel in Vermont" and a string of sleigh bells.Context
Commissioned from Mary Simpson for Vermont History Expo, 2007
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.Acquisition
Accession
2009.2Source or Donor
Paige, H. BrookeAcquisition Method
GiftMade/Created
Artist
Simpson, Mary Gorham (b.1945)Date made
2007Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PrintNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsDimensions
Dimension Description
UnframedHeight
12-3/4 inWidth
9-3/4 inDimension Description
FramedHeight
16-1/2 inWidth
13-1/2 inRelationships
Related Events
Event
Vermont History Expo