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Shelburne Museum

January 01, 1970

Shelburne Museum is a museum of art, design, and Americana located in Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds. It is located on 45 acres (18 ha) near Lake Champlain.

Shelburne Museum
Shelburne Museum's Round Barn
Established1947
Location6000 Shelburne Road
Shelburne, Vermont, U.S.
Coordinates44°22′15″N 73°13′53″W / 44.3709°N 73.2315°W / 44.3709; -73.2315
TypeMuseum of art and Americana
Collection size>150,000
FounderElectra Havemeyer Webb
DirectorThomas Denenberg
Websiteshelburnemuseum.org

Impressionist paintings, folk art, quilts and textiles, decorative arts, furniture, American paintings, and an array of 17th- to 20th-century artifacts are on view. Shelburne is home to collections of 19th-century American folk art, quilts, 19th- and 20th-century decoys, and carriages.

Electra Havemeyer Webb was a pioneering collector of American folk art, and founded Shelburne Museum in 1947.[1] The daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer and Louisine Elder Havemeyer, important collectors of Impressionism, European and Asian art, she exercised an independent eye and passion for art, artifacts, and architecture celebrating a distinctly American aesthetic.

When creating the museum, she took the step of collecting 18th and 19th century buildings from New England and New York in which to display the museum's holdings, relocating 20 historic structures to Shelburne. These include houses, barns, a meeting house, a one-room schoolhouse, a lighthouse, a jail, a general store, a covered bridge, and the 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga.

In Shelburne Mrs. Webb sought to create "an educational project, varied and alive."[2] Shelburne's collections are exhibited in a village-like setting of historic New England architecture, accented by a landscape that includes over 400 lilacs, a circular formal garden, herb and heirloom vegetable gardens, and perennial gardens.

In 2013, the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education was opened with two galleries, an auditorium, and a classroom, transforming the institution from seasonal (mid-May through October) to year-round operation.

In 2023, the Native American Initiative was announced, aiming to construct a building to display and interpret both the materials already in the museum's stewardship, and the Perry Collection, a 200 piece collection of various works by Plains, Prairie, and Southwest groups.[3]

History edit

The museum's collection was begun by Electra Havemeyer Webb, one of the first people to recognize the applied and decorative arts of rural America as collectible. Webb was an avid collector of American folk art and founded the museum in 1947. She took the step of relocating historic buildings from New England and New York to Shelburne in which to display the museum's holdings.

The museum has lost money and was said to have had a deficit of more than $300,000 (~$559,503 in 2023) in 1994.[1]

Collections edit

 
Grainstack, White Frost Effect by Claude Monet, 1890-91

The core of the collection was formed by Electra Havemeyer Webb, a pioneering collector of American folk art who founded Shelburne Museum. Mrs. Webb exchanged ideas with other major early collectors, including Katherine Prentis Murphy, Henry and Helen Flynnt and Henry Francis du Pont (who founded the Winterthur Museum and credited Mrs. Webb with inspiring him to collect American decorative arts).

Since Mrs. Webb's death in 1960, the collections have developed with an emphasis on folk art and contemporary art as it relates to the collection. Artifacts provide insight into the craftsmanship and artistic quality of objects made and used by three centuries of Americans. Visitors experience these objects in galleries and period rooms and through interactive exhibitions and demonstrations. Transportation, farming and trade artifacts illustrate America's industrial development from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. These collections are increasingly relevant to regional audiences from varied backgrounds as the economic base of the community shifts away from farming and small-scale production.

Shelburne Museum's purpose is to enrich people's lives through art, history and culture. The collection of approximately 150,000 objects is one of the most extensive and varied collections in the US and is notable for its great range, quality and depth. The outstanding collections of fine, folk and decorative art celebrate American ingenuity, creativity and craftsmanship.

Shelburne's folk art collection includes 1,400 wildfowl decoys and miniature carvings, 150 trade figures and signs, 120 weathervanes and 50 carousel figures, including all 40 animals from an early Dentzel carousel. The circus collection includes 600 historic posters, letters and memorabilia from P.T. Barnum, and the hand-carved 3,500 piece Kirk Brothers Miniature Circus. The Roy Arnold Circus Parade recreates in miniature 112 attractions from the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, Yankee Circus, and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 525 linear feet of a special exhibition building.[4]

Textiles include 770 bed coverings (including 500 quilts), 400 hooked and sewn rugs, early household textiles (1,800 samplers, laces and linens) and 2,800 costumes and accessories. The decorative arts collection has 6,650 pieces, including glass, ceramics, pewter, metalwork, scrimshaw and one of the country's best regional collections of 18th- and 19th-century painted furniture. Over 1,000 dolls, 27 dollhouses and 1,200 doll accessories echo in miniature the museum's collections of ceramics, furniture and other household furnishings. A major reinterpretation and related publication of the doll collection was completed in 2004. The collection of American and European toys dates from the beginning of the 19th century.[5]

At the museum there are some 3,200 American prints, paintings, drawings and graphics that relate to daily life. American paintings include works by Bierstadt, Cassatt, Chase, Copley, Heade, Homer, Eastman Johnson, Lane, Grandma Moses, Peto and Andrew Wyeth. A significant group of European paintings and pastels from the renowned Havemeyer collection includes works by Corot, Daubigny, Degas, Manet and Monet; they are exhibited in furnished rooms re-created from the Webbs' New York apartment, c. 1930, and are the only Impressionism pictures on public view in Vermont.[6]

Collections also include 225 horse-drawn vehicles (described as one of the best in the nation by Merri Ferrell, formerly curator of vehicles at the Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages);[7] 1,000 farming implements; and 5,000 hand tools that document woodworking, metalsmithing, coopering, weaving and spinning, leatherworking and woodcarving trades. Craftspeople staff working exhibits of blacksmithing, printing, spinning and weaving. An apothecary shop/physician's office displays 2,000 patent medicines and turn of the 20th century medical instruments.

 
Front view of the Ticonderoga (steamboat) at Shelburne Museum

The collections are exhibited in a setting of 38 exhibition buildings, 25 of which were relocated to the museum; the 1871 Colchester Reef Light; three historic and three replica barns, including a 1901 Vermont round barn; a vintage operating carousel; blacksmith and wheelwright shops; a weaving shop with an operating Jacquard loom; a working exhibit of late 19th-century printing equipment; an 1840 one-room schoolhouse; an 1890 Vermont slate jail; an 1840 general store; a rare 18th-century up-and-down sawmill; a 19th-century covered bridge with two lanes and a footpath; the reconstructed office of noted Vermont physician D. C. Jarvis; an 1890 railroad station; a 1914 steam locomotive and 1890 private rail car; and the 1906 220-foot (67 m) steamboat Ticonderoga, which is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.[8]

Controversy edit

Sale of art edit

In 1996 the museum sold $30 million (~$53.8 million in 2023) of its art to pay expenses. J. Watson Webb Jr., the son of Electra Havemeyer Webb, resigned in protest. Webb believed that the sale violated the code of ethics of the American Alliance of Museums, which forbids the selling of artworks for purposes other than acquiring more art.[1] The funds from the sale were used to establish a Collections Care Endowment which is used to support the ongoing remedial and preventative conservation, storage and management of the museum's collection.[9]

Buildings edit

Images edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Vogel, Carol (November 13, 1996). "Museum's Fortunes Rise at Auction". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-10-09. The decision to sell some of its collection followed two years of debate among the museum's directors, culminating in the board chairman, J. Watson Webb, son of Electra Havemeyer Webb, resignation in January. At the time, Mr. Webb said the museum's plans to sell valuable French Impressionist works given by his mother violated the code of ethics of the American Alliance of Museums, which forbids the selling of artworks for purposes other than acquiring more art.
  2. ^ Hewes, Lauren B.; Oliver, Celia Y. (1997). To Collect in Earnest: The Life and Work of Electra Havemeyer Webb. Shelburne, Vt.: Shelburne Museum. ISBN 0-939384-21-3.
  3. ^ "The Native American Initiative". Shelburne Museum. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  4. ^ Shelburne Museum. 2001. American Folk Art at the Shelburne Museum, by Henry Joyce and Sloane Stephens ISBN 978-0-939384-26-6
  5. ^ Shelburne Museum. 2004. The Dolls of Shelburne Museum, by Jean M. Burks ISBN 978-0-939384-28-0
  6. ^ Shelburne Museum. 1976. Paintings and Drawing at the Shelburne Museum, by Nancy c. Muller
  7. ^ Shelburne Museum. 1974. Horse-Drawn Vehicles at the Shelburne Museum, by Kenneth Edward Wheeling
  8. ^ "Shelburne Museum collections note". shelburnemuseum.org.
  9. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2010-11-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ . Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  11. ^ Julie Eldridge Edwards. 2002, The evolution of Electra Havemeyer Webb's country estate : the Brick House 1918-1947, Thesis (M.A.) Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Parsons School of Design.
  12. ^ Louie, Elaine (15 July 2004). "Currents: Museums; An Americana Expert Slept Here". New York Times. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  13. ^ Smee, Sebastian (17 August 2013). "Surprises abound at Shelburne Farms and Shelburne Museum". Boston Globe. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  14. ^ "Barn City". Boston.com. October 14, 1999. Retrieved February 2, 2011.

Further reading edit

  • Hill, Ralph Nading and Lilian Baker Carlisle. The Story of The Shelburne Museum. 1955.
  • Shelburne Museum. 1993. Shelburne Museum: A Guide to the Collections. Shelburne: Shelburne Museum, Inc.ISBN 9780939384198

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shelburne Museum.
  • Official website
  • Electra Havemeyer Webb.
  • Karp, Walter, "Electra Webb And Her American Past", American Heritage, April/May 1982 (Vol. 33, # 3).
  • Becker, Julie, , Vermont Woman, December 2004. "At first I was just [Electra Webb's] social secretary," Carlisle says.
  • "The Influences Behind the Shelburne Museum", Saint Michael's College.
  • Michod, Heather, "Electra's Cultural Jewel at Shelburne Museum"[permanent dead link], Vermont Woman, May, 2004.
  • Hakala, Sonja, "'Collector's gene' yields a trove of Americana: Electra Webb made Shelburne Museum her monument", The Boston Globe, September 12, 2004.
  • Rothstein, Edward, "Critic's Notebook: The Art of Collecting Collections", The New York Times, May 20, 2011. "Museum ... brings new meaning to the word eclectic."

January 01, 1970
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Shelburne Museum is a museum of art design and Americana located in Shelburne Vermont United States Over 150 000 works are exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds It is located on 45 acres 18 ha near Lake Champlain Shelburne MuseumShelburne Museum s Round BarnEstablished1947Location6000 Shelburne RoadShelburne Vermont U S Coordinates44 22 15 N 73 13 53 W 44 3709 N 73 2315 W 44 3709 73 2315TypeMuseum of art and AmericanaCollection size gt 150 000FounderElectra Havemeyer WebbDirectorThomas DenenbergWebsiteshelburnemuseum wbr org Impressionist paintings folk art quilts and textiles decorative arts furniture American paintings and an array of 17th to 20th century artifacts are on view Shelburne is home to collections of 19th century American folk art quilts 19th and 20th century decoys and carriages Electra Havemeyer Webb was a pioneering collector of American folk art and founded Shelburne Museum in 1947 1 The daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer and Louisine Elder Havemeyer important collectors of Impressionism European and Asian art she exercised an independent eye and passion for art artifacts and architecture celebrating a distinctly American aesthetic When creating the museum she took the step of collecting 18th and 19th century buildings from New England and New York in which to display the museum s holdings relocating 20 historic structures to Shelburne These include houses barns a meeting house a one room schoolhouse a lighthouse a jail a general store a covered bridge and the 220 foot steamboat Ticonderoga In Shelburne Mrs Webb sought to create an educational project varied and alive 2 Shelburne s collections are exhibited in a village like setting of historic New England architecture accented by a landscape that includes over 400 lilacs a circular formal garden herb and heirloom vegetable gardens and perennial gardens In 2013 the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education was opened with two galleries an auditorium and a classroom transforming the institution from seasonal mid May through October to year round operation In 2023 the Native American Initiative was announced aiming to construct a building to display and interpret both the materials already in the museum s stewardship and the Perry Collection a 200 piece collection of various works by Plains Prairie and Southwest groups 3 Contents 1 History 2 Collections 3 Controversy 3 1 Sale of art 4 Buildings 5 Images 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory editThe museum s collection was begun by Electra Havemeyer Webb one of the first people to recognize the applied and decorative arts of rural America as collectible Webb was an avid collector of American folk art and founded the museum in 1947 She took the step of relocating historic buildings from New England and New York to Shelburne in which to display the museum s holdings The museum has lost money and was said to have had a deficit of more than 300 000 559 503 in 2023 in 1994 1 Collections edit nbsp Grainstack White Frost Effect by Claude Monet 1890 91 The core of the collection was formed by Electra Havemeyer Webb a pioneering collector of American folk art who founded Shelburne Museum Mrs Webb exchanged ideas with other major early collectors including Katherine Prentis Murphy Henry and Helen Flynnt and Henry Francis du Pont who founded the Winterthur Museum and credited Mrs Webb with inspiring him to collect American decorative arts Since Mrs Webb s death in 1960 the collections have developed with an emphasis on folk art and contemporary art as it relates to the collection Artifacts provide insight into the craftsmanship and artistic quality of objects made and used by three centuries of Americans Visitors experience these objects in galleries and period rooms and through interactive exhibitions and demonstrations Transportation farming and trade artifacts illustrate America s industrial development from the 18th to the early 20th centuries These collections are increasingly relevant to regional audiences from varied backgrounds as the economic base of the community shifts away from farming and small scale production Shelburne Museum s purpose is to enrich people s lives through art history and culture The collection of approximately 150 000 objects is one of the most extensive and varied collections in the US and is notable for its great range quality and depth The outstanding collections of fine folk and decorative art celebrate American ingenuity creativity and craftsmanship Shelburne s folk art collection includes 1 400 wildfowl decoys and miniature carvings 150 trade figures and signs 120 weathervanes and 50 carousel figures including all 40 animals from an early Dentzel carousel The circus collection includes 600 historic posters letters and memorabilia from P T Barnum and the hand carved 3 500 piece Kirk Brothers Miniature Circus The Roy Arnold Circus Parade recreates in miniature 112 attractions from the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show Yankee Circus and Ringling Bros and Barnum amp Bailey Circus in 525 linear feet of a special exhibition building 4 Textiles include 770 bed coverings including 500 quilts 400 hooked and sewn rugs early household textiles 1 800 samplers laces and linens and 2 800 costumes and accessories The decorative arts collection has 6 650 pieces including glass ceramics pewter metalwork scrimshaw and one of the country s best regional collections of 18th and 19th century painted furniture Over 1 000 dolls 27 dollhouses and 1 200 doll accessories echo in miniature the museum s collections of ceramics furniture and other household furnishings A major reinterpretation and related publication of the doll collection was completed in 2004 The collection of American and European toys dates from the beginning of the 19th century 5 At the museum there are some 3 200 American prints paintings drawings and graphics that relate to daily life American paintings include works by Bierstadt Cassatt Chase Copley Heade Homer Eastman Johnson Lane Grandma Moses Peto and Andrew Wyeth A significant group of European paintings and pastels from the renowned Havemeyer collection includes works by Corot Daubigny Degas Manet and Monet they are exhibited in furnished rooms re created from the Webbs New York apartment c 1930 and are the only Impressionism pictures on public view in Vermont 6 Collections also include 225 horse drawn vehicles described as one of the best in the nation by Merri Ferrell formerly curator of vehicles at the Long Island Museum of Art History and Carriages 7 1 000 farming implements and 5 000 hand tools that document woodworking metalsmithing coopering weaving and spinning leatherworking and woodcarving trades Craftspeople staff working exhibits of blacksmithing printing spinning and weaving An apothecary shop physician s office displays 2 000 patent medicines and turn of the 20th century medical instruments nbsp Front view of the Ticonderoga steamboat at Shelburne Museum The collections are exhibited in a setting of 38 exhibition buildings 25 of which were relocated to the museum the 1871 Colchester Reef Light three historic and three replica barns including a 1901 Vermont round barn a vintage operating carousel blacksmith and wheelwright shops a weaving shop with an operating Jacquard loom a working exhibit of late 19th century printing equipment an 1840 one room schoolhouse an 1890 Vermont slate jail an 1840 general store a rare 18th century up and down sawmill a 19th century covered bridge with two lanes and a footpath the reconstructed office of noted Vermont physician D C Jarvis an 1890 railroad station a 1914 steam locomotive and 1890 private rail car and the 1906 220 foot 67 m steamboat Ticonderoga which is a U S National Historic Landmark 8 Controversy editSale of art edit In 1996 the museum sold 30 million 53 8 million in 2023 of its art to pay expenses J Watson Webb Jr the son of Electra Havemeyer Webb resigned in protest Webb believed that the sale violated the code of ethics of the American Alliance of Museums which forbids the selling of artworks for purposes other than acquiring more art 1 The funds from the sale were used to establish a Collections Care Endowment which is used to support the ongoing remedial and preventative conservation storage and management of the museum s collection 9 Buildings editApothecary Shop Beach Lodge and Gallery Ben Lane Print Shop Blacksmith Shop Brick House 10 11 12 13 Castleton Jail Charlotte Meeting House Circus Building Colchester Reef Lighthouse Covered Bridge Diamond Barn 14 Dorset House Dutton House Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building General Store Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery Horseshoe Barn and Annex Owl Cottage Activity Center Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education Pleissner Gallery Prentis House Rail Car Grand Isle Rail Locomotive No 220 Round Barn Shelburne Museum Cafe Shelburne Railroad Station and Freight Shed Vergennes Schoolhouse Settlers House Shaker Shed Stagecoach Inn Stencil House Stone Cottage and Smokehouse Ticonderoga steamboat The Toy Shop Variety Unit Vermont House Weaving Shop citation needed Webb GalleryImages edit nbsp Colchester Reef Light built in 1871 nbsp Covered Bridge built in 1845 nbsp General Store built 1840 nbsp Castleton Jail built in 1890 nbsp Vergennes Schoolhouse built c 1840 nbsp Dutton House built in 1782 nbsp Stencil House built c 1804 nbsp Horseshoe Barn built 1947 1949 nbsp Charlotte Meeting House built in 1840See also editList of Vermont museumsReferences edit a b c Vogel Carol November 13 1996 Museum s Fortunes Rise at Auction New York Times Retrieved 2010 10 09 The decision to sell some of its collection followed two years of debate among the museum s directors culminating in the board chairman J Watson Webb son of Electra Havemeyer Webb resignation in January At the time Mr Webb said the museum s plans to sell valuable French Impressionist works given by his mother violated the code of ethics of the American Alliance of Museums which forbids the selling of artworks for purposes other than acquiring more art Hewes Lauren B Oliver Celia Y 1997 To Collect in Earnest The Life and Work of Electra Havemeyer Webb Shelburne Vt Shelburne Museum ISBN 0 939384 21 3 The Native American Initiative Shelburne Museum Retrieved 2023 05 09 Shelburne Museum 2001 American Folk Art at the Shelburne Museum by Henry Joyce and Sloane Stephens ISBN 978 0 939384 26 6 Shelburne Museum 2004 The Dolls of Shelburne Museum by Jean M Burks ISBN 978 0 939384 28 0 Shelburne Museum 1976 Paintings and Drawing at the Shelburne Museum by Nancy c Muller Shelburne Museum 1974 Horse Drawn Vehicles at the Shelburne Museum by Kenneth Edward Wheeling Shelburne Museum collections note shelburnemuseum org Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2010 11 24 Retrieved 2010 11 02 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Preservation Trust Awards 2005 Archived from the original on 2011 07 19 Retrieved February 2 2011 Julie Eldridge Edwards 2002 The evolution of Electra Havemeyer Webb s country estate the Brick House 1918 1947 Thesis M A Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and Parsons School of Design Louie Elaine 15 July 2004 Currents Museums An Americana Expert Slept Here New York Times Retrieved 20 June 2011 Smee Sebastian 17 August 2013 Surprises abound at Shelburne Farms and Shelburne Museum Boston Globe Retrieved 18 August 2013 Barn City Boston com October 14 1999 Retrieved February 2 2011 Further reading editHill Ralph Nading and Lilian Baker Carlisle The Story of The Shelburne Museum 1955 Shelburne Museum 1993 Shelburne Museum A Guide to the Collections Shelburne Shelburne Museum Inc ISBN 9780939384198External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shelburne Museum Official website Electra Havemeyer Webb Karp Walter Electra Webb And Her American Past American Heritage April May 1982 Vol 33 3 Becker Julie Lifelong fascination Lilian Baker Carlisle Vermont Woman December 2004 At first I was just Electra Webb s social secretary Carlisle says The Influences Behind the Shelburne Museum Saint Michael s College Michod Heather Electra s Cultural Jewel at Shelburne Museum permanent dead link Vermont Woman May 2004 Hakala Sonja Collector s gene yields a trove of Americana Electra Webb made Shelburne Museum her monument The Boston Globe September 12 2004 Rothstein Edward Critic s Notebook The Art of Collecting Collections The New York Times May 20 2011 Museum brings new meaning to the word eclectic Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shelburne Museum amp oldid 1203837138, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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