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Ogden M. Pleissner The Sporting Grand Tour
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The Ogden Minton Pleissner Gallery
"You can say that a picture has a sense of place, but in a painting, a landscape, to me it's the mood conveyed that counts. Constable, Homer, and George Inness convey a sense of place in their pictures, yet there is something else that goes far beyond that."- Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905 - 1983)
The Ogden M. Pleissner Gallery at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont is a real treat. Pleissner was a master watercolorist who was well known for his landscape and sporting paintings. The museum has taken his studio from Manchester, VT and made it a part of the gallery. It looks just like how he may have left it; complete with a painting in progress on the drafting table as though he stepped away for a little break.
Whenever I'm in Vermont, I make an effort to visit the gallery. It's home to over 600 of his paintings and every season they display a few dozen. The gallery does a great job rotating the pictures, so you always see something new.
I'm a great admirer of Pleissner and feel a real connection to his art. He studied under the famous artist/teacher, Frank Vincent DuMond (1865 - 1951) at the Art Student's League in New York who is also a part of my own "art l