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The Loeb Art Center is a free museum that supports the College's goals of leadership, scholarship, and integrative learning. It features permanent and temporary exhibitions of art from various periods and media, as well as educational activities and events.
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Metal, Acid, Line: Etchings from the Loeb. January 16–April...
- Collections
From its founding gift by Matthew Vassar in 1864, the Loeb’s...
- Exhibitions
Learn how to access the free and open art museum on campus, with hours, tours, accessibility, and guidelines. Explore the permanent collection and exhibitions with the digital guide on Bloomberg Connects.
Metal, Acid, Line: Etchings from the Loeb. January 16–April 12, 2020. Previous exhibitions are available to view in our archive and the following exhibitions are available to view online.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, commonly known as The Loeb, is a teaching museum, major art repository, and exhibition space on the campus of Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.
From its founding gift by Matthew Vassar in 1864, the Loeb’s collection has grown to over 22,000 works of art spanning over 6,000 years and around the globe. Browse our eMuseum database by selected themes or search thousands of objects, with more information and photos added regularly.
The France’s Loeb Museum on the Vassar Campus is one of those very underrated college museums. Though it is small, the collection has an impressive collection of Picassos, Calder, De Kooning and other very famous artists in the collection.
Vassar was the first college or university in the country to include an art museum as part of its original plan. The current 36,000 square foot facility was designed by Cesar Pelli and named in honor of the new building’s primary donor Frances Lehman Loeb, a member of the Class of 1928.
