Welcome! 

The T.W. Wood Gallery is Vermont's oldest art museum, caring for two historic collections and sharing the work of contemporary Vermont artists. 

Gallery hours are 12-4, Tuesday-Saturday​
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Gallery hours are unaffected by the flood and we are open for regular business.

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Nuquist Gallery and Contemporary Hall:
​200th Birthday Gala, Scholarship Auction, Holiday Market and Ruins Artist Reception and Talk: In conjunction with Montpelier Art Walk, on view through Friday January 20

​Title: Broken Fence , Anna Held Audette, oil on canvas

PictureT.W. Wood (1823-1903), Lighting the Corncob, Oil on canvas, 1880's, T.W. Wood Collection

On View in the Wood Room
One of our more recent acquisitions: 
"Lighting the Corncob" by T.W. Wood

Gift of Judith and James Pizzagalli

The Gallery's Permanent Collection

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T.W. Wood (1823-1903), Self Portrait, Oil on canvas, 1894, T.W. Wood Collection

Who was T. W. Wood?

Montpelier's native son, Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903) was a highly acclaimed artist who headed both the National Academy of Design and the American Watercolor Society. He was best known for his many portraits and genre paintings. He was one of the first artists to paint African Americans, before and just after the emancipation, not as objects but as people with ordinary lives.
In his later years Wood wanted the people of Montpelier to have its own art gallery. He donated a number of his works and those of his contemporaries along with numerous copies he created of the European masters during his many trips to Europe’s great museums.
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Joseph Stella (1877-1946), Skyscrapers, c. 1937, Oil on canvas, WPA Collection

What is the WPA? 

The Federal Art Project (1935-1943) was a New Deal program to fund America’s arts projects under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It sustained some 10,000 artists during the Great Depression.