American Paintings and Prints from Shelburne Museum

February 12, 2010

February 12, Friday (through June 6)

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery

These 30 works represent the wide-ranging interests of American artists working in urban and rural areas before 1900. The exhibit, which celebrates the American landscape and its inhabitants, as well as artist travels, includes works by Thomas Cole, Edward Hicks, Fitz Hugh Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, and George Durrie, among many others. Free
Pictured: Martin Johnson Heade, Orchid and Hummingbird, 1875–85, oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Collection of Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, 27.1.5-20