Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing but a wall separates Bennington College from the rolling Vermont pastures. Forming the South end of the main quadrangle, it is only a foot and a half in height and symbolizes more than anything else the lack of restrictions and the freedom of ideas which are so much a part of Bennington education...
Gissen, who once spent several months with a friend in a Vermont lumberman's cottage, "reading hundreds of books and Baying healthy," wrote reviews for the New Republic before he went into the Army as an infantry private in 1942. Four years later he came out a captain, with Bronze and Silver Stars and five battle stars. He joined TIME'S staff in March 1946, wrote for the PRESS section, occasionally for ART and Music, then became a book reviewer early...
Last week seven of Santo's oils were hanging in a Manhattan show of "Contemporary American Natural Painters " His pictures of Vermont hills and quiet snowy village streets are accurate in perspective and detail, subdued in color. But for all his near-professional realism, Santo still retains his fondness for simple storytelling subjects, e.g., Sunday Morning a woman and child walking up a snowy street toward a white steepled church or Sugaring, a farmer and his sledge in late-winter maple woods. "Maybe I do it a little different than other people," says Santo. "When I do a landscape...
...Since Vermont's housepainting season is a short one, Santo finds plenty of time for his art. "All summer I paint houses to earn a living. All winter I hibernate and paint pictures to please myself. If I sell more pictures, I paint less houses." Santo manages to finish 12 to 15 canvases a year and has sold paintings to half a dozen museums, including Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney...
Last week, with Vermont's snows just beginning to shrink, Santo was busy in his backyard studio finishing a picture of Bennington's Baptist Church. In another month, he will exchange his canvases and palette for buckets and ladder. His big ambition is to sell enough pictures to be able to give up house painting for good...