New Photography Acquisitions

Thanks to an endowment given to the Art Center by Anne Hoene Hoy, class of 1963, a new exhibition area was dedicated to the photographic arts. At the time, the Loeb owned over 4,000 works of photography, film, and video ranging from nineteenth-century works by pioneering practitioners, to masterworks of fine art photography by twentieth-century photography icons, to contemporary photographs made in this century.

Among the objects on view were ten works recently acquired with funds given by Vassar's Advisory Council for Photography. The Council, a small group of donors including Ms. Hoy, funded an annual purchase of photographic artworks. In addition to the Photo Council purchases, presented for the first time was one of two large abstract compositions by Ellen Carey given to the Art Center that year by the artist.