Vivian Gaines Tanner
Landscape by Vivian Gaines Tanner









     Vivian Gaines Tanner, an inspired painter and poet and founder of the Paxton-Tanner Art Gallery, has produced a prodigious body of work despite having never had a formal art training. Inspired by an intuitive vision of the natural world bringing Eden's pristine scenes to us, she was started on her growing career by dreams and precisely instructive lessons which she ascribes to a divine outpouring of grace.
     Originally seen in her locality, the Hudson Valley, in banks and restaurants, she has gained an increasing appreciation by exhibits in New York City and special showings in a widening circle. 
In Memory
    Of Vivian Gaines Tanner, who has returned to the Heaven which inspired her work in the Year of our Lord 2000. The beauty she created lives on.