ARTHUR HEALY & HIS STUDENTS
Several generations of area residents and Middlebury College students were introduced to the beauty and benefits of art and art history by Arthur K.D. Healy (1902 – 1978), the College’s first “Artist in Residence,” who later joined the faculty and served as Chairman of the Fine Arts Division. He was rarely without his pencils, pens, brushes, and paper, recording the landscapes of Vermont, Ireland, Florida, and Haiti, with a particular ability to capture the horses at Saratoga, fly fishing on area creeks and rivers, grouse hunting in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, sailing on the Atlantic Coast and the waters of Lake Champlain, and hunting, trekking and fishing on Ireland’s west coast in Connemara.
The Green Room and the Cerf Gallery of the Museum highlight a range of his watercolor paintings and in the Judd-Harris Gallery are displayed works by nine of his Middlebury College students who went on to careers as artists - Gayl Maxwell Braisted ’59, Anne “Junie” Stringer DeCoster ’55, P’87, Ken Delmar ‘63, Sabra Field, ’57, Tom Johnson ’48, Joan Pokorney Sommers ’51, Nancy Taylor Stonington ’66, Vcevy Strekalovsky ’60, and Pat Hamilton Todd ’53. Arthur Healy’s legacy lives on not only in his works of art but in the paintings created by his students who attribute to him the inspiration to embark with confidence on the artistic roads they have traveled.
Works by Arthur Healy
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Works by Healy’s Students
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