Presbyterian Church, c. 1930 (Arlington)

John “Jack” Atherton’s lithograph is of a church near his Vermont home in Arlington. He was born in Brainerd, Minnesota. After studying art at the College of the Pacific and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, he used prize money he won at an exhibition in 1929 to fund his trip east to study and work in New York City. A few years later, he held his first one-man show in Manhattan.

He was highly respected and successful as an illustrator, and a long list of American museums have added his illustrations and fine art paintings to their collections.