Name/Title
North PownalEntry/Object ID
2021.23.1Description
Oil painting showing a river valley between mountains. The landscape is rendered in thick, rough strokes. There are two large mountains on the left side of the image, and smaller mountains on the right and in the background, fading to a deep blue. There is a small line of red buildings in the center foreground, and a hazy group of buildings behind them where the valley narrows.Type of Painting
EaselArtwork Details
Medium
OilSubject Place
Village
North PownalTown
PownalCounty
Bennington CountyState/Province
VermontCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaContext
Marion Huse (1896-1967) was an artist whose work spanned forty years and a variety of styles and subject matter, from Regionalism in the 1930s to a more Expressionistic style that she developed in the post-war years. A native of Massachusetts, she achieved a degree of success unusual for a woman of her day, founding and operating the Springfield Art School from 1925 to 1940 and serving as supervisor of WPA art projects for western Massachusetts from 1936 to 38.
Around 1933, Huse acquired a studio in the village of Pownal, Vermont, where she spent her summers and many weekends until 1940, when she moved to Pownal full-time. During the late 1930s and through the 1940s Huse devoted time to print making and was acknowledged as one of the pioneers of the serigraph, or silkscreen, as a fine art media.
In 1944 Huse married Dr. Robert Barstow and moved her studio to his farm on Mount Anthony Road in Pownal. Huse and her new husband lived briefly in Albany and spent 18 months in Europe after the war, but returned to their home in Pownal in 1948 and remained there until the early 1960s. During this latter part of her career, Huse transitioned into a more Expressionistic style, embracing brighter, non-associative color and more vigorous abstract brushwork, inspired by her study of European modernists, applying this new approach to the local landscape.
-- from Bennington MuseumAcquisition
Accession
2021.23Source or Donor
Broderick, Warren F.Acquisition Method
GiftMade/Created
Artist
Huse, Marion (1896-1967)Date made
1933 - 1944Place
Town
PownalCounty
Bennington CountyState/Province
VermontCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PaintingNomenclature Class
ArtNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects