Pleissner Gallery is an exhibit building located at the Shelburne Museum

Shelburne Museum

Shelburne Museum is a museum of art and Americana located in Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds...

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History

In 1986 the Museum erected Pleissner Gallery to house the estate of Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905-1983), which he bequeathed to the Museum. Pleissner was a close friend of the Webb family who earned national recognition during his lifetime for his realist watercolor and oil landscapes and sporting scenes. The main gallery functions as a rotating exhibition space dedicated to displaying works from Pleissner’s diverse portfolio while the adjoining room houses a recreation of Pleissner’s Manchester, Vermont studio complete with canvases, brushes, and personal memorabilia.

The Gallery features 40 of the Museum's 600 Pleissner works in a rotating exhibition. The gallery shows watercolors and oil paintings from all periods of Pleissner's career, including early renderings, Western landscapes, works from war-torn France and England, and sporting scenes.

Information on Ogden Pleissner

Pleissner received his formal training at the Art Students League in New York City

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. During the 1930s he spent summers in Wyoming, building a reputation as an accomplished painter of Western landscapes. Pleissner served as a war artist for the U.S. Air Force and Life Magazine during WWII, completing many watercolors in war torn France and England. In later years he painted in Europe, Nova Scotia, New York City (where he maintained a winter studio), and Vermont. Pleissner was the recipient of many honors and awards, including a gold medal from the American Watercolor Scoiety. (see Ogden Pleissner

Ogden Pleissner

-Biography:Ogden Minton Pleissner was born on April 29, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York. His father was very interested in the arts, especially music, and his mother was an accomplished violinist who had studied in Germany. When he was eleven a friend gave him a paint box filled with a wide array of...

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