This is our third and last post on the Shelburne Museum (see Part 1 and Part 2).
The parents of the Museum’s founder were collectors of French Impressionist masterpieces. It is amusing to think how much of turn Mrs. Webb took in her own collecting — it’s like she became anti-Impressionist.
In the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building, six rooms from Mrs. Webb’s 1930s Park Avenue apartment (New York City) were painstakingly removed and rebuilt on the museum’s grounds in incredible detail. Needless to say, the rooms include furniture that are themselves works of art, but the walls have many more works of art. It was like being in an art matrix, where the room is an exhibit that contains an exhibit.
The Green Guest Room. You know how you hang your Degas paintings in the guest room? Two Dancers on the left, Dancer in Green on the right.
The cover photo is “the leather room”, which I think is a fancy way of saying library?
Check out that entry way to the Green Guest Room!
Lila Vanderbilt Webb and Her Son, J. Watson Webb by George Munzig. The son in this painting married the woman who founded the Shelburne Museum, Electra Havemeyer. Lila and her husband founded nearby Shelburne Farms, where we did our “Sun to Cheese” tour.
Oh, did you think the Green Guest Room had only two Degas paintings in it? For shame! Rehearsal in the Studio.
The dining room — and I’m having trouble with this — had four Monet paintings. Four! You can see Grainstacks, Snow Effect on the left wall.
Monet’s The Thames at Charing Cross Bridge, London also hung in the dining room.
The White Living Room includes three Manets (on the wall behind where I stood taking this photo), another Monet over the fireplace (The Drawbridge, Amsterdam), and Rembrandts on either side of the window on the far wall (Portrait of a Young Man in a Broad-Brimmed Hat on the left, Portrait of a Man – The Treasurer, on the right).
Manet’s In the Garden, hanging in The White Living Room.
Unidentified portrait.
Look at the detail on that dress!
And now…it’s flower time!
Gobs and gobs of day lilies.
Can you spot the Ticonderago stack in the background?!
Ticonderoga on the left, the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building on the right.
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