Selections from the Permanent Collection (1990)

This exhibition features 25 paintings and sculptures ranging across several centuries and many styles which have recently returned to Vassar from "world travels" to other museums or are about to depart for distant exhibitions.

"On average, Vassar's gallery has several objects on loan to major museums at home and abroad at any given time," said Rebecca Lawton, curator of the gallery. "Each of these loans demands not only important decisions as to the perils to which the work may be subjected but also a great deal of work to prepare the object for its journey."

One of the "travelers" on view, an early Cezanne oil on canvas landscape, has just returned from an exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, the Louvre in Paris, and the London National Gallery, for example. Another work, the colorful "Indian Composition" by Marsden Hartley, is back on view after a stint in Canberra, Australia.