Charles Loring Elliott, Portrait of Matthew Vassar, 1861

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Art from jeanne greenberg rohatyn’s private collection

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn leads the art world by example. Salon 94, where she displays vanguard art in her Upper East Side town house, is one of Manhattan’s premier creative hubs. And as an eminently erudite and elegance presence on the art scene, Greenberg Rohatyn herself serves as a role model for aspiring collectors.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art loans eight major Hudson River School paintings to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Thanks to a generous loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is now exhibiting through February 2009 eight key paintings of the Hudson River School, featuring some of the greatest paintings of Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, Sanford Gifford, and Asher Durand.
Vassar College press release, posted May 1, 2008
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Art Review: Bend Me, Misshape Me

The exhibition is divided up according to themes, including full-length portraiture, fragmentation, exaggeration of the figure and the body in motion. Because the bulk of the collection was assembled in the 1990s, it reflects not only that era’s fashionable artists but also the art world’s concerns with subjectivity, gender and sexuality. In this way the show is something of a time capsule.
New York Times, Sunday, May 4, 2008
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Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center go on tour in Japan, March 2008

The exhibition entitled "Paris-New York: Modernist Painting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterworks from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College," will mark the first time that a collection of works of art from Vassar College will tour outside of the Western Hemisphere.
Vassar College article, posted February 29, 2008
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Art Center Slide Show for Paris-New York

A few selections from the eighty-six modernist art works touring Japanese art museums between March 7 and December 14, 2008.
Vassar College slide show, posted March 2008
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Modern Art Collection Travels to Japan

A selection of 86 examples of modern art from the collection of the FLLAC begins a five-museum tour of Japan in March 2008.
Vassar Quarterly article, posted Spring 2008
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Free outdoor film series at the FLLAC, 3/27 - 6/5

The FLLAC to present a free, weekly, outdoor film series on Thursday evenings -- in conjunction with both the museum's new exhibition "Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection," and with its weekly “Late Night at the Lehman Loeb” program.
Vassar College press release, posted March 20, 2008
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