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'A Beckoning Country: Art and Objects from the Lake Champlain Valley'

Tuesday, April 14 9AM – Sunday, September 20 4PM at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington.

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  • 802-656-0750
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In celebration of the quadricentennial anniversary of Samuel de Champlain's arrival to the lake that bears his name, the works in this exhibit examine the features of the Champlain Valley landscape through objects and art created from and inspired by it since pre-European contact.

'A Beckoning Country'

UVM’s Fleming Museum borrowed the title of its new exhibit from the come-hither name of a 1960s campaign by the State of Vermont to promote tourism. But the “art and artifacts from the Lake Champlain Valley” go further back than that. Like, many thousands of years in the case of geologic specimens. The “beckoning” elements of the exhibit, both natural and manmade, are arranged in sections focusing on earth, water, flora and fauna and include more than 100 paintings and objects produced in, or inspired by, the Lake Champlain basin. Just in time for the lake’s 400th year since Samuel de Champlain laid eyes on it. Pictured: “Burlington Bay” by Theodore Hopkins (1828-1889).

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