Highlights from the Loeb’s Mexican Art Collection

Paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs by Mexican artists, as well as those born elsewhere but who were active in the country, comprise a very small portion of the collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. In conjunction with the loan exhibition, "Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States," the best examples of these are on display together for the first time. With the exception of two nineteenth-century retablos, the works were produced between the 1920s and 1970s, reflecting a wide array of aesthetic approaches, media, and subject matter.

The dozen and a half Latin American objects were all given to Vassar College between 1953 and 2008 by eleven different donors, beginning with Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Class of 1931, and most recently by Mauricio Pajón, Class of 1999. Special recognition goes to James Curtis, Class of 1984, who kindly lent the two platinum print photographs by Tina Modotti. There are works that appeared in this exhibition that were loans to the Loeb and therefore do not appear on this website.