Shelburne Museum IV (7/25/2026)

Saturday, July 25, 2026 (continued)

Barn (2001) and Settlers' House (c 1846)

Sawmill (1958 to house the...

...1787 up-and-down frame saw and
historic logging equipment

Originally powered by a waterwheel

Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building (1967 to
recreate six rooms from Webb's 1930s Park Avenue
apartment in New York City, in order to display
her Impressionist paintings

The Leather Room with leather paneling

The Leather Room: Painting of James Watson
Webb: Master of the Shelburne Hounds
(1953, by Raymond Perry Rodger Nielson)

White Living Room: In the Garden (c 1870, by Edouard Manet)

White Living Room: Blue Venice (1874-1875,
by Edouard Manet)

White Living Room: The Drawbridge. Amsterdam
(1874, by Claude Monet)

White Living Room: Painting on the left on the far wall,
Portrait of a Young Man in a Broad-brimmed Hat (1643,
is attributed to the workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn)

Pensive Oriental (c 1868-1870, by
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot)

Entry Hall: Louisine Havemeyer and Her Daughter Electra
(1895, by Mary Cassatt, a friend of Louisine) and 
Horse Clearing an Obstacle and Rearing Horse
(1888-1890, by Edgar Degas, cast 1920)

Dining Room with Haystacks, Snow Effect (1891,
by Claude Monet)

Dining Room: The Thames at Charing Cross Bridge,
London (1899, by Claude Monet)

Tiffany Room: Flower From Favrile Vase
(1902) and Double-Gourd Favrile Vase
(1897-1898) by Tiffany Studios

Green Guest Room: Rehearsal in the Studio
(c 1875, by Edgar Degas)

Green Guest Room: Mother Rose Nursing Her Child
(c 1900, by Mary Cassatt)

Mr Webb's Bedroom

Mrs Webb's Bedroom

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education
(2013, by Ann Beha Architects)

Varied and Alive: New and Rarely Seen Treasures from the Collection:

Noah's Ark (1900-1955, by Gustaf Hertzberg)

Freshening Cows, Peacham, Vermont
(1990, by Altoon Sultan) 

Millerite Banner (c 1840s) shows the tenets of a
religious movement led by William Miller, who
believed the world would end in 1843

George Washington and Martha Washington (1840s-1860s,
by William Matthew Prior) used the technique of
églomisé/painting on the reverse side of glass

Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont (includes contemporaries of Rockwell):

Covered Bridge with Carriage or Black Buggy
(1946, by Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses)

Fisherman's Paradise (1941, by John Atherton)

Lithograph of The Gossips
(1948, by Norman Rockwell)

The Babysitter (1947, by Norman Rockwell),
where it is said that the baby's feet were stuck
with a pin to get the crying facial expression

Untitled [Advertisement for Russell
Fly Ribbon] (date unknown, by
Gene Pelham) as commercial art

Bromley Mountain (1945, by
Mead Schaeffer) uses neighbors as models

Norman Rockwell lived in Arlington, VT from 1939-1953, in a community that mirrored his values, offering Americans a reassuring vision of small-town life during years marked by depression, war, and profound social change. He and neighboring artists transformed the Vermont village into a narrative of enduring American ideals (or so they believed)