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(HOST) From Art in the Park to paintings on exhibit at the local fair, commentator Tom Slayton says that summer is a good time to sample the fine arts of our region. And this summer one particular show is personal.

(SLAYTON) The friendship between my father, Ronald Slayton, and Francis Colburn lasted a half-century and only ended when Colburn died in 1984.  It was a friendship that gave both men great pleasure, and that also, I am sure, benefited their work as artists and teachers.

Now an exhibition at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum celebrates the work of these two artists 100 years after their birth. It’s an interesting and enjoyable show – and not only because Ronald Slayton happened to be my father!

The Fleming Museum show is fascinating because it shows how the work of these two artists changed and matured over their lifetimes. And, perhaps more importantly, because the paintings and prints produced by Slayton and Colburn offer an interesting look back at some of the important themes and trends of 20th Century art in Vermont.

The two men were among the first Vermont artists to paint in a distinctly modernist manner – that is, they very consciously turned away from the placid and decorative themes of Victorian-Era art and instead embraced their own time and its challenges. They began their artistic careers in the 1930s in Burlington, and at first both painted in an earthy, muscular version of the prevailing style -  Social Realism.

In later years, as their lives followed different paths, their styles diverged and each artist’s work became more personal. Yet they both continued to be strongly influenced by 20th Century modernism throughout their lives.

One of the strong points of this exhibit is that it brings to public light many paintings from the Fleming’s treasure trove of Vermont artworks that haven’t been shown for 30 or more years. It also very subtly and intelligently points up similar themes expressed in both men’s art and the influences from other, earlier painters that contributed to their understanding and growth as artists.

And yet, throughout, there are interesting differences in their paintings. We are, after all, dealing with the creative output of two very different men!

While both men celebrated the world of work and the building of a new, strong, and populist America in their New Deal-era paintings, Colburn, in his working portrait of “Charlie Smith and His Barn” clearly was depicting a particular man on a particular Craftsbury Farm. By contrast, Slayton’s two large oils entitled “Men at Work” and “Men at Rest” took pains to make the muscular figures anonymous, hiding their faces, and turning their bodies into sinewy, dreamlike compositions.

In later years, Colburn’s work took an inward turn, and he explored his own family memories in a series of paintings that included portraits of family members and friends, depictions of old photographs, and bare surrealist landscapes. Slayton left oil painting altogether and began exploring the possibilities inherent in watercolors – a difficult medium that gave him the quick composition and intense color that suited his personality.

All of these themes and more are on display in the current exhibit, “A Centennial Celebration: The Work of Francis Colburn and Ronald Slayton,” which will continue at the Fleming Museum in Burlington through August 29.

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signed with monogram and dated ‘1868′ (lower right)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, arched
6 3/8 x 4¾ in. (16.3 x 12.1 cm.)

London, Dudley Gallery, 1869, no. 519a.

Hitherto regarded simply as a preliminary watercolour sketch for The Prodigal’s Return, the major oil painting that Poynter exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1869 (lot 29), this is in fact an independent drawing conceived for a definite purpose. It is one of four watercolours that Poynter executed in 1868 as illustrations for The Nobility of Life, its Graces and Virtues, published by Frederick Warne the following year. Poynter was not the only artist involved. Henry Le Jeune, Frederick Walker, J.D. Watson and others also contributed.

Poynter’s designs took the form of figure subjects emblematic of four ‘graces’ or ‘virtues’, namely Mercy, Obedience, Cheerfulness and Youth. Our watercolour represented Mercy. Obedience, symbolised by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, was sold at Christie’s South Kensington on 4 May 1995, lot 62, and is now in the collection of Dr Denis Lanigan. Cheerfulness appeared at Sotheby’s Belgravia in 1971, while Youth seems to be missing. For further details, see the entry for Dr Lanigan’s watercolour in the catalogue cited above, in which the help of Alison Inglis in illuminating this subject is acknowledged.

The four watercolours, all approximately the same size and with similar arched tops, were exhibited at the Dudley Gallery in 1869. The Dudley had held its first exhibition in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, in 1865. It specialised in watercolours, and supported the younger generation of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic painters. Poynter was a regular exhibitor.

It is interesting to compare Mercy with The Prodigal’s Return, the subsequent reworking of the composition on a grander scale in oil. Quite apart from the obvious differences in the poses of the two figures, there is a degree of idealisation in the oil which is absent in the watercolour. Particularly striking is the more refined type chosen for the son and the ampler draperies given to the father. Obviously a lot of rethinking went on between the two versions, and it was probably during this period that Poynter made the following drawings (lots 165-8). However, from all we know of his working methods, the watercolour itself would have been based on studies from life.

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