Collection of The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College


Located in Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is a teaching museum and major art repository on the campus of Vassar College.  Founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery, the Art Center’s collection now contains over 18,000 works.  The collection includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, and glass and ceramic wares.  Important holdings include the Warburg Collection of Old Master Prints, a group of Hudson River School paintings donated by Matthew Vasser, and a wide range of works by major European and American twentiethp> century painters.  Included in the group of 20th-century works by European and American artists 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.


1890 Sketch of a Lady with Striped Dress and Hat; and of Another Lady, Half-Figure Drawing Sketch-of-a-Lady-with-Striped-Dress-and-Hat;-and-of-Another-Lady,-Half-Figure
1890 Study of a Woman Standing; Two Heads; Another Figure Drawing Study-of-a-Woman-Standing;-Two-Heads;-Another-Figure





Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
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