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The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum is located in
St. Johnsbury, Vermont. It is significant due to the construction, the American landscape paintings and books from its original role as a public library and free art gallery, and funding by
Horace Fairbanks, manufacturer of the world’s first platform
scale. The art collection contains a number of
Hudson River School paintings. This unaltered building retains a strong,
Victorian (
French Second Empire) flavor of the 19th century. It is one of about ten
athenaeums in the United States.
History
When the library opened, the collection consisted of 9,000 books selected by bibliographer
William F. Poole.
Art Gallery
In 1873, Fairbanks added a small art gallery. This is now the oldest gallery still in its original form in the United States.
The walls and floor are black walnut. The art gallery is lighted naturally from an arched skylight in the ceiling. Cases on two sides of the room contain art books in tooled leather bindings. Gilt-framed paintings are displayed.
One hundred works of art are displayed. Besides originals by American artists, there are also copies of European masterpieces. The major part of the collection is by American and European artists from the late eighteenth century to the middle nineteenth century.
Hudson River School painters include
Asher B. Durand,
Jasper Francis Cropsey,
Sanford Gifford, a
Luminist painter,
James and
William Hart pastoral landscapes with cattle. Western scenes are portrayed by
Samuel Colman and
Worthington Whittredge. Dominating the room is a canvas, ten by fifteen feet, of the
Domes of Yosemite, by
Albert Bierstadt.
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