Slate Pile, 1947

Arthur Healy taught at Middlebury College in Vermont for 25 years, right up through the late 1960s. Even though the artist did not name the location of this scene, huge slate piles were a common sight years ago along the Vermont-New York state line, an area still known as Slate Valley.

Born in New York, Healy trained and worked as an architect and architectural engineer. He has the distinction of serving as an artist-in-residence for one year at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. He was also an illustrator and writer, joining the art faculty at Middlebury in 1943. Bennington Museum has a collection of his work, as do many other important museums across the Northeast.