Northeast

Bennington Museum holds the largest public collection in the world of paintings by Grandma Moses, the great 20th-century folk artist who painted scenes of rural life embodying a sense of an idyllic bygone America.

This new space features the works of the late acclaimed, self-taught artist Sterling Strauser who lived and painted in East Stroudsburg from 1928 to 1995.

Featuring over two hundred works dating from the 1930s to 2010 by twenty-seven self-taught American artists, the exhibition “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz seeks to further the dialogue concerning the intersection of outsider art with mainstream modern and contemporary art. Outsider artists—untrained individuals who employ unusual materials and