Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
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The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is a teaching museum, art repository, and exhibition space on the campus of Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. It was originally founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery. It displays works from antiquity to contemporary times.
[edit] 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. Almost 4,000 of those works are searchable online at http://fllac.vassar.edu/onlineprojects.html.
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, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keefe, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Nancy Graves, and Marsden Hartley.
[edit] 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 20th Century. Changing print and photographic exhibitions are housed in a separate room.
