NEWFANE-As it does annually, Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., is featuring the Robert L. Crowell Art Collection.
The collection will be shown until Friday, Jan. 30, during the library’s operating hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 1 to 5 p.m.; Thursdays, 1 to 6 p.m.; and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Displayed will be artwork by Mallory Lake, Jules Olitski, Emily Mason, Wolf Kahn, Janet Fish, Eric Aho, Diedre Scherer, Roger Sandes, James Urbaska, David Brewster, Marcy Hermansader, Michaela Harlow, Clare Adams, Bobbi Comfort, Susan Osgood, Johnny Swing, and Jim Florschutz.
“Initially, the gallery was only open in the summer, and so there were three short months when the collection would be hung,” Gallery Manager Lee Anne Parker said in a 2025 interview. As time went on, she said, library staff decided that, with the full year that the library and the gallery would be open, they’d show different artists from the area throughout the year.
Parker has been volunteering there since 2016, and she has overseen the annual exhibition since 2017.
The Crowell Gallery was opened to the public in 2000 “to show the collection of contemporary Southern Vermont art that Robert and Muriel Crowell had purchased from local artists,” Parker explained. Robert Crowell would drive around and visit artists with his second wife, Muriel.
“If there was stuff that he liked or she liked [...] he would purchase it and bring it back and put it, you know, it would become part of the collection,” Parker said. “So kind of a labor of love.”
The gallery was converted from a 200-year-old barn on the Moore property. The building itself was restored by local artisans Dan and Gary MacArthur, Parker said.
Admission to the gallery is free. For more information, visit moorefreelibrary.org.
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