May 20–August 15. Paintings, prints, and photographs from the Permanent Collection are the basis of this exhibition focused on the idea and the presentation of celebrity.

February 12–June 6, 2010. Selected from the extensive collection of paintings at the Shelburne Museum, these thirty works represent the wide range of interests of American artists working in both urban and rural areas before 1900.

January 7–April 18. The debate regarding the respective merits of ancient Greece and Rome that pervaded Rome during the Enlightenment is documented with Piranesi prints of ancient Rome and plates from Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of Athens.

September 18–December 13, 2009. At heart a collaborative venture, the creation of early fifteenth-century panel paintings in Italy depended upon a tight network of connections between patrons, painters, woodworkers, and gilders. The product of these interactions was an object that served both as a focus for devotion, and as an emphatic statement about wealth and status.

September 4–December 13, 2009. This exhibition will highlight the illustrations of Winslow Homer, Thomas Nast, A.R. Waud, and several other talented but anonymous artists as well as showcasing a variety of related artifacts and daguerreotypes. The exhibit was researched and organized by the students of Professor Christopher Wilson’s First Year Seminar “The Art and Life of Winslow Homer.”