Upcoming

American Paintings and Prints from Shelburne Museum

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.

Greece vs. Rome: The Eighteenth-Century Quest for the Sources of Western Civilization

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.

Celebrity

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.