Inspired by Nature: The Women Artists of Rokeby

Inspired by Nature: The Women Artists of Rokeby
2025 Seasonal Exhibition, May 10–October 12, 2025

The Robinson farm is set in a strikingly beautiful landscape. The ever-changing woodlands, ponds, and fields — abundant with flowers, plants, and animals domestic and wild — and nearby shimmering Lake Champlain crowned by Adirondack Mountain peaks, inspired the art of Ann Stevens Robinson and her daughters Rachael Robinson Elmer and Mary Robinson Perkins.

Inspired by Nature: The Women Artists of Rokeby shares a small portion of the work they produced. We invite you to draw inspiration from this exhibit to nourish your own creative expression.

Ann King Stevens Robinson, “Anna”
(1841–1920)

Rachael Robinson Elmer
(1878–1919)

Mary Robinson Perkins, “Molly”
(1884–1931)

“Our business is to become better (in every sense of the word) human beings, and Art is only to be regarded as an inestimable aid in making us so. Its chastening and intensifying power cannot be over valued — but never lose sight of the fact that it is only a means.”

— Rachael Robinson, Personal Diary, 1901.

Gallery Talk

Inspired by Nature’s Curator Joan Gorman provided a peek behind the curtain on how Rokeby constructed this 2025 seasonal exhibit.

Visitors’ Inspirations

We provided visitors with drawing supplies to create their own artwork inspired by the women artists of Rokeby and the living still life within the exhibit.