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Making and Meaning
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College
Reveals the stories behind Vassar’s art museum and the depth of its collection.
Making and Meaning features select works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College, located in Poughkeepsie, New York. Through illustrated essays and entries, as well as poetry and a timeline, this book reveals the profound richness of a collection that spans from antiquity to the present day.
Showcasing a wide variety of artistic works and contributions, the volume explores paintings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, and sculptures from this stunning collection. Written by Vassar curators, faculty, community partners, students, and art historians, the texts demonstrate how the art museum at Vassar originated in 1864 and now stands, like many American academic museums, at the forefront of the rapidly evolving museum field.
Making and Meaning features select works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College, located in Poughkeepsie, New York. Through illustrated essays and entries, as well as poetry and a timeline, this book reveals the profound richness of a collection that spans from antiquity to the present day.
Showcasing a wide variety of artistic works and contributions, the volume explores paintings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, and sculptures from this stunning collection. Written by Vassar curators, faculty, community partners, students, and art historians, the texts demonstrate how the art museum at Vassar originated in 1864 and now stands, like many American academic museums, at the forefront of the rapidly evolving museum field.
Table of Contents
Director’s Foreword
T. Barton Thurber
Acknowledgements
Elizabeth Nogrady and Alyx Raz
Making and Meaning at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Elizabeth Nogrady
Loeb Art Center Timeline
Elizabeth Nogrady with Anna Molloy and Emily Lesorogol
At the Loeb
Vassar’s Founding Collection: Landscape Painting of the Hudson Valley
William L. Coleman
Catalogue Entries, 1300s BCE–1500s CE
Prints from the Felix M. Warburg Collection
Elizabeth Nogrady
Catalogue Entries, 1600s–1804
Japanese Prints
John P. Murphy
Catalogue Entries, 1829–1886
Nineteenth-Century Photography
Jessica D. Brier
Catalogue Entries, 1888–1899
French Modern Art
Cora Michael
Catalogue Entries, 1921–1927
The Stieglitz Circle
John P. Murphy
Catalogue Entries, 1930–1950
Building Vassar’s Modern Art Collection
Mary-Kay Lombino
Catalogue Entries, 1951–1975
Work by Self-Taught Artists
Mary-Kay Lombino
Catalogue Entries, 1975–1994
Works on Paper by Inuit Artists
Molly S. McGlennen
Catalogue Entries, 1994–2006
Contemporary Photography
Jessica D. Brier
Catalogue Entries, 2014–Present
Modern and Contemporary Art in the Hudson Valley
John P. Murphy
Endnotes
Photography Credits
T. Barton Thurber
Acknowledgements
Elizabeth Nogrady and Alyx Raz
Making and Meaning at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Elizabeth Nogrady
Loeb Art Center Timeline
Elizabeth Nogrady with Anna Molloy and Emily Lesorogol
At the Loeb
Vassar’s Founding Collection: Landscape Painting of the Hudson Valley
William L. Coleman
Catalogue Entries, 1300s BCE–1500s CE
Prints from the Felix M. Warburg Collection
Elizabeth Nogrady
Catalogue Entries, 1600s–1804
Japanese Prints
John P. Murphy
Catalogue Entries, 1829–1886
Nineteenth-Century Photography
Jessica D. Brier
Catalogue Entries, 1888–1899
French Modern Art
Cora Michael
Catalogue Entries, 1921–1927
The Stieglitz Circle
John P. Murphy
Catalogue Entries, 1930–1950
Building Vassar’s Modern Art Collection
Mary-Kay Lombino
Catalogue Entries, 1951–1975
Work by Self-Taught Artists
Mary-Kay Lombino
Catalogue Entries, 1975–1994
Works on Paper by Inuit Artists
Molly S. McGlennen
Catalogue Entries, 1994–2006
Contemporary Photography
Jessica D. Brier
Catalogue Entries, 2014–Present
Modern and Contemporary Art in the Hudson Valley
John P. Murphy
Endnotes
Photography Credits