Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

'The Pastelists'

Pastel has long had a bad rap as a minor artists’ medium. Then, earlier this year, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — a pastel on board — sold for nearly $120 million. Vermont artists further the cause in a show called “The Pastelists” at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville through September 3. Wendy Harris creates an impossibly glassy water surface in “Fen Reflection” (pictured). In Marcia Hill’s “Lemon Sunset,” rolling magenta hills glow under a yellow sky. And in “Laundry Day,” Aline Ordman’s expressive strokes make everything in the scene appear to be dancing: a dairy cow, a field of wildflowers and a colorful line of laundry.