History

Like many artists before them, Mary and Alden Bryan found Jeffersonville, Vermont  a perfect place to paint, when they first came to this area in 1937.  They made their home at Windridge Farms, and set about to become vital members of the community through their artwork and  many other contributions to the integrity and development of their surroundings.

Today over seventy years later, the legacy of Mary and Alden Bryan is evident in Jeffersonville, in many ways, most notable through the existence of the Bryan Memorial Gallery on Main Street.

One of the few structures in Vermont, designed and built primarily for the exhibition of visual art, Bryan Memorial Gallery offers the community and its visitors an optimum location in which to view fine art.  Designed by Alden Bryan, its original and Main Gallery is lighted through a soaring bank of skylights.  An ingenious system of installing paintings allows the gallery to change exhibitions with efficiency, just as a configuration of moveable walls allows for flexible exhibition installations.

Shortly before his death in 2001, Alden Bryan oversaw the construction of The East Gallery that doubled the exhibition space of the original gallery, and created a Middle Room for use as a gallery shop.

Today, the legacy of Mary and Alden Bryan lives through exhibitions, touring exhibitions, workshops and the participation of a large and vital membership of fine visual artists, who come to this region, just as Mary and Alden Bryan did seventy years ago, to paint.

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