Cadets Visit the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

CDTs Caitlin Laneve (2017, D4), Hailey Conger (2019, B3), Nathalie Du (2019, E4), and Mara Kagawa (2019, A1) of the Studio Arts Forum traveled to Vassar College to explore the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. With over 19,000 works, the Art Center is one of the most respected museums in the area outside of New York City. The cadets were able to study paintings from the Hudson River School including Moore’s Down the Hudson to West Point (1861); modern works by Picasso, Pollock, and O’Keeffe; Asian art from the early Edo through the Meiji periods; and several sculptures from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. However, the highlight of the event was the Art Center’s current exhibition, Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument, a collection of photographs that Parks took to chronicle the gang wars in post-World War II Harlem for the November 1, 1948, issue of Life magazine.