Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Vassar was the first college or university in the country to include an art museum as part of its original plan. The current 36000 sqft facility was designed by César Pelli and named in honor of the new building’s primary donor Frances Lehman Loeb, a member of the Class of 1928. 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 the curriculum is the main focus of the collection. Notable holdings include the Warburg Collection of Old Master prints, an important group of Hudson River School paintings given by Matthew Vassar at the college’s inception, and a wide range of works by major European and American twentieth-century painters.

• Name — Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center • Established — 1864 • Location — 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, New York • Owner — Vassar College • Type — Art museum • Website — vassar.edu/theloeb

• Illustration — Curved glass entry 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 the 20th century. Changing print and photographic exhibitions are housed in a separate room.