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Loeb Awarded Grant for Founding Galleries

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center was awarded an Implementation Grant by the Terra Foundation for American Art to support the reinstallation of Vassar’s Hudson River School paintings, a core feature of the College’s art collection.

Color woodblock depicting people engaged in a contest contest of enlightened fashion.

New Exhibition at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar Features Japanese Art from 1830 to 1904 That Documents an Era of Power, Expansion, and Change

Posted 2/12/2026

Artdaily mentioned the new exhibit, Copies, Casts and Pedagogy: The Early Teaching of Art and Art History at Vassar College, currently on view at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

New Grant for the Loeb for Important Painting Conservation

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center has secured a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation for the conservation of “Lyric,” a 1951 oil on canvas by the late American artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992).

A close-up of a rustic metal sculpture with a weathered, rusted surface. A small, green-patina mask of a human face is embedded in a cutout of the rusty metal. The sculpture is outdoors, with green grass and trees visible in the background.

Monumental Sculptural Artwork Added to Vassar College Grounds

Posted 10/13/2025

Soaring 18 feet high, seven sentinels made of weathered steel surround a female bronze figure that appears to emerge from the earth. This dynamic and awe-inducing public artwork, situated at the northwest perimeter of the campus, is Vassar College’s newest public art acquisition.

Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025

Posted 8/18/2025

This fall, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar presents Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025, an exhibition that brings together more than sixty works acquired over the past five years.

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Summer Art Programming, Exhibitions Announced at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar

Posted 6/27/2025

With the arrival of summer, Vassar’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is rolling out the red carpet for art lovers this season with a wide range of events and exhibitions spanning improvised performances utilizing the gestural composing language of Soundpainting to exhibitions that explore the reciprocal relationship between place and person, showcase the museum’s collection of Hudson River School art, and examine images of the body fragmented into pieces.

Hyperallergic mentioned two exhibitions currently at The Loeb in their list of art shows to see in Upstate New York this summer.

Tiger painted in ink on paper mounted on silk brocade six-fold screen.

Loeb’s New Grant Launches Restoration of 17th-century Japanese Painted Screen

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center was awarded funding by Tokyo-based Sumitomo Foundation toward the restoration of a 17th-century Japanese painted screen. A rarity and a cherished work in the Loeb’s Asian art collection, the screen was painted by Unkoku Toeki in the early 1600s. Its conservation will allow it to remain a popular teaching object for Art History at Vassar.

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