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February 3rd 2012, 11:27Hunt dragons, design robots, cook on an open hearth. Sign up for Museum camps Sat. @kidsvt Camp Fair Hilton #BTV 10-2 http://t.co/UoIdHlR4
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February 2nd 2012, 11:32@juliapung Your friend could contact our curatorial department at curators@shelburnemuseum.org
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February 2nd 2012, 09:31And the weathervane stamps are now available as strips of 25 as well as rolls of 3,000 from @USPSstamps https://t.co/QJZ7ssyQ
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February 2nd 2012, 09:23.@WinterthurMuse This birdy in your coll. http://t.co/3rsA6LA1 looks very similar to one of ours, now on a USPS stamp http://t.co/jJIdcsGo
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February 2nd 2012, 09:19RT @WinterthurMuse: No groundshogs in our collection (whew!), but here are some weather-related items that live in the museum: http://t ...
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Decoys
Shelburne Museum’s collection of 900 wildfowl decoys, most of which is on exhibition, is the finest, most comprehensive in the country. It includes examples by prominent carvers Anthony Elmer Crowell, Shang Wheeler, Gus Wilson, Bill Bowman, Joseph Lincoln, Lee Dudley, George Warin, and John Blair. Decoys from Maine, Long Island, Chesapeake Bay, Illinois, Quebec, and other regions are exhibited.
The collection was formed with a 1952 gift of more than 400 superior examples from Joel Barber, a New York City architect, artist, and carver who in his seminal book Wild Fowl Decoys (1934) was the first to identify the importance of decoys as a uniquely American art form.
The Museum also boasts a small but fine collection of fish decoys from the Upper Midwest, made by Oscar Paterson, Art Rep, Manfred Caughell, and others.
Wildfowl and fish decoys are exhibited in Dorset House.