Saturday, June 21, 2014

Visitng the Shelburne Museum

The Shelburne Museum is a museum of art, design, and Americana.  Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 38 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds.  I viewed Impressionist paintings, folk art , quilts and textiles, decorative arts, furniture, as well as a bunch of 17th- to 20th-century artifacts. 

http://shelburnemuseum.org/

I was particularly inspired by the overshot coverlets.  These coverlets were extremely popular in almost every community in the United States from the coloniel era until the late 19th century.








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