Blog – Save the Art

My heart must share this

August 11, 2022
Memories

Fifty years ago, I sat at the feet of Bouguereau's lamb, cross-legged on the cool floor of the Berkshire Museum, as footsteps echoed around me. I could feel that lamb in my arms, and I could feel the ewe, so earnest and trusting, next to me.

Albert Bierstadt: Redwoods of California

This painting greeted me on my first visit as a child

October 29, 2021
Memories

Thanks to the donation and generosity of Zenas Crane (of the neighboring Dalton, MA Crane Paper Co - who made all the paper for US currency) this painting greeted me on my first visit as a child and it has held my imagination ever since.

Shuffleton’s Last Days in the Berkshires

July 5, 2021
Memories

Garver’s photographs show Norman Rockwell’s painting “Shuffleton’s Barbershop,” which I was tasked with framing nearly a half a century ago.

A glance at Berkshire Museum’s final report to AG on art sale proceeds

December 7, 2019
Attorney General

A final report by the Berkshire Museum to Attorney General Maura Healey on proceeds from its recent art sales was required in the successful 2018 petition to the Supreme Judicial Court that ended state opposition and allowed up to $55 million in sales....

Newly flush Berkshire Museum seeks public help Appeal follows final accounting to AG’s office on art sale proceeds

December 7, 2019
Berkshire Museum

With investment income now covering one-third of its budget, the Berkshire Museum is back in supporters' mailboxes with an upbeat report — and a different kind of "ask."

Filing details Shields’ severance package from Berkshire Museum

December 8, 2018
Van Shields

The Berkshire Museum agreed to pay its former executive director $92,000 to leave his post last June, a month after the institution sold a dozen of its most valuable works.

MA Attorney General Healey Endorses Harrington, Discusses Berkshire Museum In Pittsfield

October 2, 2018
Attorney General

With the fall election campaign heating up, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey was in the Berkshires Monday.

Thomas Moran, The Last Arrow, 1867, Oil on canvas

Berkshire Museum to Auction More Works

October 1, 2018
Sotheby's

The board of trustees of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has announced that two works will be auctioned at Sotheby’s American art auction set to take place in New York on November 16.

The Berkshire Museum Belongs to the Community

August 30, 2018
Save the Art

We release this statement on the eve of the September 4th Boston Appeals Court hearing on the precedent-setting case regarding the Berkshire Museum’s decision to sell its valuable art collection and disregard its original mission.

Suit against Berkshire Museum art sales to be argued before appeals court Sept. 4

August 14, 2018
Court

Lawyers for the Berkshire Museum aren’t quite done defending its art sales — even as those transactions near completion.