Today’s post comes from Sergio Lozano, class of 2021 and Art Center Student Docent
One of our most recent acquisitions at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is an eighteenth-century painting by French artist Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752) titled Allegory of Sculpture. De Troy was the son of portraitist François de Troy, whose connections allowed his son to obtain a post at the French Academy of Rome and later return to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in France

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Today’s post comes from Claudia Ashworth, class of 2019 and Art Center Student Docent
From March 2-June 10, the Art Center’s painting Rural Landscape (1931) by Grant Wood will be on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of their retrospective, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. The exhibition consists of an extensive overview of Wood’s work and illuminates his less-known content

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Today’s post comes from Bella Dalton-Fenkl, class of 2020 and Art Center Student Docent
The following poem should be read from bottom to top

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