This Manchester mansion has history — and now the world’s largest private collection of 20th-century Vermont art

This Manchester mansion has history — and now the world’s largest private collection of 20th-century Vermont art

Dani Edgar, collections manager at Manchester’s Southern Vermont Arts Center, hangs a William Dean Fausett painting that’s part of “For the Love of Vermont: The Lyman Orton Collection.” Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger MANCHESTER — Lyman Orton arrived at a local auction six decades ago in hopes of furnishing his first house, only to spy a seemingly simple yet thought-provoking framed landscape. “The whole idea that artists fell in love with the …