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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

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name	Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
logo	Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center logo.jpg
image	Loeb exterior 2022a (cropped).jpg
caption	Entrance and courtyard
map_type	New York
map_caption	Location in New York State
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established	1864
location	124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, New York
owner	Vassar College
type	Art museum
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The Lehman Loeb Art Center’s collections chart the history of art from antiquity to the present and comprise over 18,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, and glass and ceramic wares. Teaching students and working as an important tangible complement to the curriculum is the main focus of the collection. Notable holdings include the Warburg Collection of Old Master prints, an important group of Hudson River School paintings given by Matthew Vassar at the college’s inception, and a wide range of works by major European and American twentieth century painters.

Significant collections

At the time of its founding, the collection's largest holding was a large group of Hudson River School paintings. These were donated by Matthew Vassar himself who purchased them from the Rev. Elias Magoon of Albany, New York. The collection, named for Magoon, includes the work of Frederic Church, Asher Durand, and Joseph Mallord William Turner.

The Warburg Collection of Old Master prints features works by Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn. They were given to Vassar's collection in 1941 by Felix Warburg.

Perhaps the greatest strength of the art collection housed by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is its 20th-century works by European and American artists. Included in this group are significant works by Pablo Picasso, Balthus, Arthur Dove, Ian Hornak, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Nancy Graves, and Marsden Hartley.

The museum is home to the mummified remains of an ancient Egyptian by the name of Shepen-Min, the son of Pahat, who is housed at the Berkshire Museum.

In November 2016, the gallery opened the Hoene Hoy Photography gallery on the second floor, named after Anne Hoene Hoy from the class of 1963.

Architecture

The art center is housed in a structure designed by Argentine architect César Pelli. It features a curved glass entry, and rooms separating covering Asian; Greek and Roman; Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque; 19th-century American; 19th-century European; and the 20th century. Changing print and photographic exhibitions are housed in a separate room.

References

[http://fllac.vassar.edu/about/index.html About the FLLAC]
(June 2010). "Wrapped! The Search for the Essential Mummy". USA Today Magazine.
(November 9, 2016). "Loeb opens new photo gallery". [[The Miscellany News]].

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