Incollect Magazine - Issue 2

HAPPENINGS Eyesight & Insight: Lens on American Art on view this Summer at Shelburne Museum Through October 16, 2022 Shelburne Museum, 6000 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT For information, visit shelburnemuseum.org or call 802.985.3346 Eyesight & Insight: Lens on American Art marks the first major museum exhibition considering the myriad roles of eyeglasses and optical technologies in American art. The exhibition features a rich selection of items drawn from Shelburne Museum’s collection as well as significant loans from private collectors, public institutions, and galleries. Eyesight & Insight is both an in-person and online exhibit. Eyesight & Insight illuminates a history of creative responses to perceptions of vision, inviting new insights into the ways American artists have negotiated issues related to sight. Building on the accompanying publication by art historian John Wilmerding, Lens on American Art: The Role and Depiction of Eyeglasses, the exhibition surveys more than 200 years of American art, scientific innovation, and design. Themes explored range from 18th-century optical technologies to the social and historical connotations of eyeglasses in portraiture from the 19th century to the present. Wilmerding’s research offers new viewpoints and perspectives from which to consider these objects and themes. Issue 2 46 www.incollect.com Rue Michelle ANTIQUES ~ FINE ART ~ INTERIOR DESIGN Arik Lerner (619) 347-7180 ruemichelleantiques.com ruemichelleantiques@yahoo.com All items available Worldwide shipping Lovely pair of unusually large Louis XV style chairs. Recent recover. Scalamandre fabric. Rare 18 century French Neoclassical painted Armoire. Unidentified maker, H. L. Adams Optician’s Trade Sign, date unknown. Painted iron, 10½ x 30 x 1¼ in. Collection of Shelburne Museum, gift of Roger Wentworth. 1964-64. Photography by Andy Duback. Einars J. Mengis, JohnWilmerding with Spectacle trade sign, July 10, 1968. Gelatin silver print, 8 x 10in. Collection of Shelburne Museum Archives.