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  Tiffany Studios – Pond Lily Globe, 1900-10
Courtesy of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, New York City |
Louis Comfort Tiffany Exhibit in 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature by Design will explore the oeuvres of Louis Comfort Tiffany within the context of Art Noveau style and the Aesthetic Movement focusing on nature in his designs. |
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 Dogs in the Ticonderoga basin prepare to break record for loudest dog bark
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Guinness World Record Set for Loudest Dog Bark |
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Shelburne Museum Awarded Education Grant Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to enhance key museum mission. Art workshops, summer day camps, evening programs all to benefit. |
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 Kirk Bros. minature circus
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Circus Building Makeover Complete Shelburne Museum’s Circus Building reopens on Friday, Aug. 1 after a year-long renovation. The museum’s prized circus collection is back on display including posters that haven’t been on view in over two decades. |
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 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 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. |
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 Inhaling lilacs at Shelburne Museum
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Lilac and Gardening Sunday draws record crowds Shelburne Museum opened its gates for the season on Sunday to blue skies, lilacs in full bloom and record attendance. |
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 Stephen Dixon, director of protection services
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Shelburne Museum Announces New Protection Services Director Shelburne Museum Director Stephan Jost announced the hiring of a new director of protection services for the museum. |
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Shelburne Museum Opens May 18 Lilac and Gradening Sunday kicks off a stellar season. |
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Summer Camps at Shelburne Museum Enriching, creative and quality summer fun! |
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 Photo credit Miki Duisterhof – Shelburne Museum's 45-acre campus bursts with a colorful palette of blooms all season.
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Shelburne Museum Gifts Enhance Grounds 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. |
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 Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) – Family Group Reading, ca. 1901
On loan from Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Shelburne Museum Announces 2008 Exhibits 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. |
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 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 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). |
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 Judith Leslie – Sunset Lewisia, 2006
On loan from artist |
Dazzling Flower Quilts Featured at Shelburne Museum |
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 Karen Petersen, Director of Education and Public Programs
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Director of Education and Public Programs Announced Karen Petersen to head up Education Department |
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