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Poughkeepsie / Stati Uniti d'America

Poughkeepsie è una città degli Stati Uniti d'America, capoluogo della contea di Dutchess nello Stato di New York. Posta a 60 miglia da New York, Poughkeepsie è stata fondata nel 1687. Si pensa che il nome sia derivato da una parola indiana, ma il significato è sconosciuto, probabilmente potrebbe voler dire "capanna di canne presso la grande acqua". Al suo interno troviamo, inoltre, alcune famose università, come il Vassar College, una delle Seven Sisters schools, il Marist College, e il Dutchess Community College. Nelle vicinanze, inoltre, si trova il Culinary Institute of America. A Poughkeepsie è presente una grossa sede dell'IBM ed era sede dell'unico stabilimento statunitense della FIAT costruito nel 1909 e chiuso nel 1942.

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Poughkeepsie / Stati Uniti d'America

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is a teaching museum, major art repository, and exhibition space on the campus of Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It was founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery. It displays works from antiquity to contemporary times. 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 César Pelli and named in honor of the new building’s primary donor Frances Lehman Loeb, a member of the Class of 1928.The Lehman Loeb Art Center’s collections chart the history of art from antiquity to the present and comprise over 18,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, and glass and ceramic wares. Teaching students and working as an important tangible complement to the curriculum is the main focus of the collection. Notable holdings include the Warburg Collection of Old Master prints, an important group of Hudson River School paintings given by Matthew Vassar at the college’s inception, and a wide range of works by major European and American twentieth century painters.