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Electra Havemeyer Webb (August 16, 1888 – November 19, 1960) was a collector of American antiques and founder of the Shelburne Museum. [1] Early life. Electra Havemeyer was born on August 16, 1888. She was the youngest child of Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847–1907), President of the American Sugar Refining Company, and Louisine Elder (1855–1929).
Electra Havemeyer Webb (auch Mrs. James Watson Webb) (* 16. August 1888 in New York, NY, USA; † 19. November 1960 ebenda) war eine amerikanische Kunstsammlerin. Sie begründete das Shelburne Museum in Vermont. Mary Cassatt: Electra Havemeyer mit ihrer Mutter Louisine Havemeyer, 1895, Shelburne Museum
Four years later, in 1952, the Main House at High Acres Farm was completed. Electra died on November 19, 1960 in Burlington, Vermont. In Fragments is an exploration of ‘Life Art’ — a series of 21 rituals and films created from 2015–2021 by Jonathan Harris as a way of transforming historical patterns at High Acres Farm.
23. Okt. 2014 · Derry Moore. By Edward Rothstein. Oct. 23, 2014. LONDON — Within the depths of the Crypt — as the architect Sir John Soane rather whimsically called one region of the extraordinary museum here that...
The visitors could see at once that Electra Havemeyer Webb, of the baronial Webbs, the fox-hunting Webbs, the private railroad-car Webbs, had created a place that, above all else, paid a warm and eloquent tribute to the doughty virtues of their own Vermont forebears.
19. Feb. 2024 · Electra Havemeyer Webb, in 1947, founded the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. A “collection of collections,” the museum brought together examples of art, architecture, and even local trees, all showcasing Webb’s interest in objects that can educate and illuminate American life and culture.
Shelburne Museum’s world-renowned collection of French Impressionist masterpieces is exhibited in the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building. The interior is a painstaking recreation of six rooms from Mrs. Webb’s 1930s Park Avenue apartment in New York City.
