Georgia O’Keeffe, East River No. 3, Grey Blue with Snow, 1926
Collection Highlights
Antiquities
Highlights include: Head of Viceroy Merymose from His Outer Sarcophagus c. 1375 B.C.; Panel from a Child’s Sarcophagus, 3rd Century
Medieval, Renaissance, & Baroque
Highlights include: Crucifixion with the donor Brother Amelius of Emael, c. 1465; The Open Missal, c. 1570; Still Life with Fruits and Bread, 1641
19th Century European
Highlights include: The Exedra Seat, 1869; The Defense of Paris, 1871
19th Century American
Highlights include: Autumn in North America, 1856; Shadow Decoration, 1887
20th Century
Highlights include: Indian Composition, 1914-15; Study for Portrait IV, 1953
Photographs
Highlights include: Skiers, c. 1929
Prints & Drawings
Highlights include: Adam and Eve, 1504
Asian
Highlights include: Tower, 2nd Century
Prestel Guide
The widely respected Prestel Museum Guide series has just published the new book The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: The History and the Collection. This makes the Art Center the first U.S. art museum and the only U.S. college or university museum to have its own Prestel Guide. Prestel Publishing is a world leader in the fields of art, architecture, photography, design, cultural history, and ethnography – spanning such important museums as the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the Alte Pinokothek in Munich, and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris – and its guides are sold around the world.