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Woody Jackson (Vermont 1948-) Two "Rubin's Cow" Serigraphs 14 x 11" 21 x 14" as framed, signed and dated 1984- After graduating from Middlebury College in 1970, he had no interest in working for “the man,” so he and his fellow back-to the- landers started a small commune on a farm in Addison. “We were a bunch of weavers, potters, glass blowers, poets, and artists,” Woody recalls. To supplement (or provide!) an income, Woody found work on Avery and Waverly Carl’s small dairy farm in Bridport. “I did whatever they needed: haying, feeding calves, cleaning out the barn gutters, but never milking—that was above my pay grade,” he laughs. “I would be out raking the hayfields, or looking at a herd against the backdrop of the broad Champlain Valley and Adirondack Mountains, and I was blown away by how the cows stood out in the fields of different colors.” Those two years introduced Woody to the “real” Vermont and taught him to appreciate local culture and the rural life. “Cows are the unsung heroines of Vermont,” he says. “When people think of Vermont, they think of a landscape of crop fields and pastures dotted with grazing cows.” Woody translated those visions into idealized cowscapes, everything bright and orderly, no detritus. Black-and-white Holsteins graze and laze on rolling pastures, conveyed in bold swaths of vibrant colors. Cows, barns, clouds, fields, and mountains elevated to simplicity, thanks to his talent as a printmaker and painter.