The National Sporting Library and "Museum"

  

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"The National Sporting Library and Museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the literature, art, and culture of horse and field sports. Founded in 1954, the institution has over 17,000 books and 200 works of art in the collections. A fellowship program supports scholarship. Information is shared through exhibits, lectures, seminars, publications, and special events.

The Library and the Museum are located in two buildings on Vine Hill in Middleburg, Virginia. For several years, the National Sporting Library occupied a pre-Civil War house on the Vine Hill. In 1999, on the same property, it built a carriage-style library designed for its expanding collections. In 2010, the older building was renovated and expanded to accommodate the National Sporting Art Museum.

The Museum houses a permanent collection as well as exhibits. "The NSLM's permanent art collection consists of paintings, sculpture, prints, weathervanes, and objects d'art dating from the late 17th century to the present. Important American, British, and Continental artists such as Henri KeLarre, Lionel Edwards, John Emms, Herbert Haseltine, J.F. Herring, Sr. and J.F. Herring, Jr., Ben Marshall, Sir A.J. Munnings, John Skeaping, Edward Troye, Franklin Voss, and George Wright, as well as lesser known examples by Richard B. Adam, Carroll Bassett, Jean Bowman, Paul Brown, Alvan Fisher, Michael Lyne, Louis Maurer, Gustave Muss-Arnolt, and Richard Stone Reeves are represented.

The art collection, first formed with important donations and bequests from the George L. Ohrstrom Family, has expanded over the years through gifts from other NSLM benefactors, including Elizabeth D. Clark, John H. Daniels, Timothy Greenan, Jacqueline B. Mars, Paul Mellon, Jacqueline L. Ohrstrom, Harry T. Peters, Jr., and Felicia Warburg Rogan."

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