Thomas Denenberg is the director, Kory W. Rogers is a curator, and Nancie Ravenel is the objects conservator at Shelburne Museum. Cynthia Byrd is the executive director at the Julia A. Purnell Museum, in Salisbury, Maryland.
"The unparalleled collection of 1,400 wildfowl decoys at Shelburne
Museum in Shelburne, Vt., was established with a 1952 gift of more
than 400 superior examples from Joel Barber, a New York City
architect, artist, and carver. Barber's groundbreaking 1934 book
“Wild Fowl Decoys” was the first to identify the importance of bird
decoys as a uniquely American art form."
—Antiques & Auction News
"The unparalleled collection of wildfowl decoys at Shelburne Museum
are featured in the newly published Birds of a Feather: Wildfowl
Decoys at Shelburne Museum..."
—Vermont Country Sampler
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