Today’s post comes from Natasha Mandell, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s Spring 2013 exhibition, Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, showcased some of the new additions to the Art Center’s collections. The exhibition covered a wide variety of time periods, movements, and media, including sixteenth- to twenty-first-century prints...
Today’s post comes from Deborah Steinberg, class of 2014 and Art Center Student Docent.
On February 22, Professor Peter Stillman kicked off our Artful Dodger series this spring with a discussion of two photographs that expanded upon the course he taught last semester around the Sawdust Mountain exhibition at the Art Center. Richard Misrach’s Salton Sea (T.V. Antennae) and Althea...
At the conclusion of World War I, Germany suffered terrible financial and social backlash from the rest of Europe. Veterans and civilians alike struggled to pick up the pieces and move on from wartime. War profiteers in Berlin lived sumptuously, in high contrast with the wounded veterans and families who outlived their primary breadwinner. Impoverished...
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is continuing its series of event podcasts, broadcasting various Art Center happenings to the cyberworld!
This time we bring you a lecture by museum director James Mundy and a panel discussion with art dealer Eric Brown (Vassar class of 1990) of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, Williams College...
Today’s post comes from Justine Paradis, class of 2013 and Art Center Docent.
From left to right: James Mundy, Deborah M. Rothschild, Eric Brown, and Jonathan Kagan.
Photo by Carlos Hernandez ’14
To enjoy a museum, you don’t need to know the work involved to put a collection together. However, the shape of a museum’s collection is almost...
Today’s post comes from Deb Steinberg, class of 2014 and Art Center Docent.
Anne Truitt’s Sorcerer’s Summer (1991) is an abstract, modern sculpture that develops a visual intensity through its bold planes of color and precise rectilinear form. From across the gallery, the wooden sculpture appears very simple and solid, characterized by its crisp right angles...
Today’s post comes from Rhyston Mays, class of 2016 and Multimedia Student Assistant.
Valentin de Boulogne’s The Four Ages of Man (1629) hangs on the Art Center’s walls among other works from the seventeenth century. The first time I came across Valentin’s painting, I was not particularly intrigued. His style was familiar, like that of Michelangelo...
Today’s post comes from Olivia Zisman, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
When I walk through the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s 20th Century gallery, Louise Nevelson’s Dawn’s Wedding Feast Columns always draw my attention. The monochromatic white sculptures seem to have an almost ethereal, otherworldly quality, standing enigmatically side-by-side and larger than life.
The...
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center actively encourages faculty and students from across all departments and programs to view the art collection as a teaching tool and the galleries as a learning site. Perhaps this is nowhere more evident than in this fall’s half-semester course, “Photography, Environment, and Politics: Sawdust Mountain.” The course, which is...
Today’s post comes from Justine Paradis, class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
Barbara Hepworth’s Maquette for Winged Figure (c. 1940–1) was created, as the title suggests, as a preliminary model for a larger sculpture that was eventually installed on the second story exterior of the John Lewis Building on Oxford Street in London. The...
Today’s post comes from Sophie Asakura, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
In Max Ernst’s 1940s work The Lady Hears a Nightingale, sticky, spidery forms of green algal growth seem to blanket the composition. The growth creeps across the canvas, permeated subtly by a cubist figure. The figure is loosely human, with arms and...
Today’s post comes from Alison Dillulio, class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
Unknown [Japanese Mid-to-late Edo period (1615-1868)], Inkstone Box (Suzuribako) with Eight Views of Omi (Omi-hakkei). Wood coated with lacquer and gold. Purchase, Pratt Fund. 2008.21.
The suzuribako is one of many Asian art objects in Vassar’s Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center collection. It is not currently on view.[1]...
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