Magoon's collection of over 4,000 works by contemporary English and American artists immediately became an integral part of education at Vassar College. In the expansive decades of the mid-nineteenth century, fine artists and landscape architects pioneered in the interpretation of historic sites and features of the natural environment. The seventy works in this exhibition include oil paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings by 55 artists. Featured artists include John Ruskin, Joseph William Mallord Turner, and Hudson River School painters such as Frederic Edwin Church, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and Asher B. Durand. The Loeb is closed on Mondays.
Admission is free and the art center is wheelchair accessible.
Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.