Vermont Barns, 1935

David Humphreys was originally from Morristown, New Jersey and was a Princeton graduate. Known as one of “the Dorset Painters,” he was a generation younger than the earliest group of painters who settled in Dorset.

In 1927, Humphreys and the artist Bea Jackson, by then a married couple, went to study art in France. They returned to the United States well before the outbreak of World War II and settled in Dorset around 1941. Humphreys was known for his landscape paintings of Vermont as well as his paintings of France.

He was on the board of the Southern Vermont Artists, serving as the organization’s treasurer for several years. His work was shown at New York’s National Academy up until his death. The Dorset Historical Society and Southern Vermont Arts Center have collected works by David Humphreys.