Spring 2005 volume 101 issue 2
This spring, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s exhibition Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art will be on view on campus and on the road. One of the centerpieces of the show, the Daniel Vosmaer painting View of a Dutch Village, is a work close to the show’s curator and Vassar Professor of Art Susan Donahue Kuretsky’s ’63 heart. By Micah Buis ’02
When Italian novelist Alberto Moravia visited Vassar in 1936, he began the day with a lecture and ended it at the junior prom. Later that year, he published an account of his visit to campus in an Italian newspaper. Vassar Professor of Italian John Ahern translated this essay and walks us through Moravia's adventurous day. By John Ahern
Jeffrey Smith '74 has attended Dutchess Community College, Vassar, Princeton, and Yale. But before these illustrious institutions, Smith boarded at another establishment for four years: Green Haven Prison in Stormville, New York. How did he get there, and where is he now? By Bronwen Pardes '95