The SCAD Museum of Art holds the The Earle W. Newton Collection of British and American Art. The Collection consists of rare books, antique maps, and paintings, with works by Hogarth, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney and others. While all of the art, nearly 200 portraits and over 1,400 prints, and most of the maps reside at the SCAD Museum of Art, the books and a few of the maps are now in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections.
In the late 1940s, Newton founded two magazines, American Heritage and Vermont Life. He was the author of The Vermont Story: A History of the People of the Green Mountain State 1749-1949; Essays on the Social and Economic History of Vermont; Before Pearl Harbor; The Americanization of the Gulf Coast, 1803-1850; The Upper Connecticut: Narratives of its Settlement and its Part in the American Revolution; Spain and Her Rivals on the Gulf Coast; In Search of Gulf Coast Colonial History; and Our American Heritage: An Interpretation.
Newton had a fondness for English painter and printmaker, William Hogarth, whose work is well represented in both the books and the art. Newton also collected early editions of Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, and many others. He established a Museum of the Americas in Brookfield, Vermont and served as its president from 1989 to 2003. He was also a professor of art and presidential assistant at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.
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