Shelburne Museum

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The Shelburne Museum is a 1947 founded Applied Art , art and open-air museum in Shelburne in the US state of Vermont 19 km south of Burlington on the main road. 7

Édouard Manet: Still Life with Salmon , Shelburne Museum

The exhibition or collection goes back to the lifelong efforts of Electra Havemeyer Webb (1889–1960), who had a total of 37 historical buildings "merged" here as a place for a "normal" art museum and the location for a historically oriented open-air museum in which around 80,000 arts and crafts items, especially the so-called quilts , will also be presented. There is also an exhibition of over 240 carriages .

All possible architectural styles of Vermont can be found here, such as the unusual mansard roof of the Colchester Reef Lighthouse from 1871 or a very rare round barn from 1901. A pompous paddle steamer , the Ticonderoga from 1906, rests in a specially dug water basin on the site .

The museum exhibits American paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries ( Erastus Salisbury Field , Winslow Homer , Grandma Moses ). In the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building, the museum founder's New York apartment has been rebuilt in the style of the 1930s . Important paintings by Rembrandt , Édouard Manet , Degas , Monet , Gustave Courbet , Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Daubigny are exhibited in the 6 rooms .

literature

  • Nancy C. Muller: Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne Museum

Web links

Commons : Shelburne Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 44 ° 22 ′ 21.8 "  N , 73 ° 13 ′ 55.8"  W.