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Major Mary Cassatt Exhibit Opens
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Lilac and Gardening Sunday draws record crowds
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Shelburne Museum Announces New Protection Services Director
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Shelburne Museum Opens May 18
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Summer Camps at Shelburne Museum
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Shelburne Museum Gifts Enhance Grounds
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Shelburne Museum Announces 2008 Exhibits
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Important Aquisitions Enrich Shelburne Museum Permanent Collection
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Dazzling Flower Quilts Featured at Shelburne Museum
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Director of Education and Public Programs Announced
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For further information on Shelburne Museum or to request photography please contact the Museum's public relations office:

Phone: (802) 985-3348 x3331
E-mail: lwright@shelburnemuseum.org

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Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror)

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) – Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror), ca. 1899
On loan from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 

Major Mary Cassatt Exhibit Opens
June 21, 2008

Impressionist Mary Cassatt is the focus of a major exhibition at Shelburne Museum that opens June 21.

Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family features more than 60 works by Cassatt and Edgar Degas, many of which are on loan from private collections and museums including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Inhaling lilacs at Shelburne Museum

Inhaling lilacs at Shelburne Museum
 

Lilac and Gardening Sunday draws record crowds
May 20, 2008

Shelburne Museum opened its gates for the season on Sunday to blue skies, lilacs in full bloom and record attendance.

Stephen Dixon, director of protection services

Stephen Dixon, director of protection services
 

Shelburne Museum Announces New Protection Services Director
April 28, 2008

Shelburne Museum Director Stephan Jost announced the hiring of a new director of protection services for the museum.



 

Shelburne Museum Opens May 18
April 17, 2008

Lilac and Gradening Sunday kicks off a stellar season.

Quill writing

Quill writing
 

Summer Camps at Shelburne Museum
April 1, 2008

Enriching, creative and quality summer fun!

Shelburne Museum's 45-acre campus bursts with a colorful palette of blooms all season.

Photo credit Miki Duisterhof – Shelburne Museum's 45-acre campus bursts with a colorful palette of blooms all season.
 

Shelburne Museum Gifts Enhance Grounds
March 25, 2008

Shelburne Museum Director Stephan Jost announced recent gifts to the museum in the amount of $100,000 earmarked for landscaping projects on the grounds of the museum’s 45-acre campus.

Family Group Reading

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) – Family Group Reading, ca. 1901
On loan from Philadelphia Museum of Art
 

Shelburne Museum Announces 2008 Exhibits


May 18 – October 26, 2008

Shelburne Museum announced an exciting slate of nine new exhibits featuring a major show by the American Impressionist Mary Cassatt and contemporary folk artist Warren Kimble’s first museum retrospective.

Untitled (Sloop off a Rocky Coast) (detail)

Francis Augustus Silva (American) (1835-1886) – Untitled (Sloop off a Rocky Coast) (detail), ca. 1880
Gift of Eric P. Lande, Ph.D.
 

Important Aquisitions Enrich Shelburne Museum Permanent Collection
February 5, 2008 – February 5, 2009

Shelburne Museum director Stephan Jost announced the acquisition of several works to the museum's collection, among them an important painting by 19th century maritime artist Francis Augusta Silva (1835-1886).

Sunset Lewisia

Judith Leslie – Sunset Lewisia, 2006
On loan from artist
 

Dazzling Flower Quilts Featured at Shelburne Museum
May 18, 2008

Exhibit showcases award-winning talent from North America. More than a dozen contemporary quilts along with works from the museum's world-renowned collection.
Karen Petersen, Director of Education and Public Programs

Karen Petersen, Director of Education and Public Programs
 

Director of Education and Public Programs Announced
December 5, 2007

Karen Petersen to head up Education Department

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