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'Inspired by Gruppe'

In the early 1940s, Emile A. Gruppe, who would become one of Vermont’s most renowned landscape painters, was a prominent member of the decade-old Northern Vermont Artists Association. Gruppe lived most of the year in Gloucester, Mass., but liked to spend the late fall and early spring in Jeffersonville, Vt. Unlike other painters who fawn over the Green Mountain State’s fiery foliage and verdant fields, Gruppe was drawn to the grayness of a landscape in flux. Current members of the NVAA are showing their work in a show called “Inspired by Gruppe” at the late painter’s eponymous gallery in Jericho through December 23. Pictured: “Porter Farm, Cambridge, Vt.” by Janet Bonneau.