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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
362:. 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. 207:. It displays works from antiquity to contemporary times. Vassar was the first college or university in the country to include an art museum as part of its original plan. The current 36,000-square-foot (3,300 m) facility was designed by 777: 737: 285:
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
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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
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at the college’s inception, and a wide range of works by major European and American twentieth century painters.
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and named in honor of the new building’s primary donor Frances Lehman Loeb, a member of the Class of 1928.
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the curriculum is the main focus of the collection. Notable holdings include the Warburg Collection of
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At the time of its founding, the collection's largest holding was a large group of
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List of university art museums and galleries in New York State
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University art museums and galleries in New York (state)
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The art center is housed in a structure designed by
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Vassar College Art Gallery


Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is located in New York
Poughkeepsie
New York
Coordinates
41°41′10″N 73°53′51″W / 41.6862°N 73.8974°W / 41.6862; -73.8974
Vassar College
vassar.edu/theloeb
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie
New York
César Pelli
Old Master
Hudson River School
Matthew Vassar
Hudson River School
Matthew Vassar
Elias Magoon
Albany, New York
Frederic Church
Asher Durand
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Old Master prints
Albrecht Dürer
Rembrandt van Rijn
Felix Warburg
Pablo Picasso
Balthus

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