Natalie Van Vleck, Woodbury.
Collection of Flanders Nature Center.
Woodbury
The impressionist painter Willard Metcalf spent
time in Woodbury in 1919, staying at the Curtis House Inn and painting
a number of scenes along the Pomperaug River as well as colonial homes
within walking distance of the inn.
In the 1926, Natalie Van Vleck and her parents, socially prominent New
Yorkers, bought a farm in Woodbury. In 1928 she converted a barn to a
studio, where she made paintings of nature studies. She stopped painting
in 1934 to concentrate on her turkey and sheep business.