The NVAA was founded in 1930 by    Harold Sykes Knight, and a group of his fellow Burlington, VT. artists.  The roster of first members included such notable Vermont artists as Ruth Mould, George Dana Smith, Elizabeth and Francis Colburn, Isabelle Clark Mills, Katherine Worcester and Georgia Balch. 

    Their mission statement:

 

      One early NVAA member was the famous Maxfield Parish.  He lived in New Hampshire, but only, as he quipped, so he could "get a good view of Vermont!"

         OTHER WELL KNOWN VERMONT ARTISTS WHO BELONGED TO THE NVAA IN THE EARLY YEARS....