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Peabody College Amassed an Impressive Fine Arts Collection Before Joining Vanderbilt

Posted by on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, News, Student/Alumni, VRC.

childehassamWhen George Peabody College for Teachers merged with Vanderbilt University in 1979, the agreement came with a little-known perk: The school had acquired a sizable collection of art stored in a basement vault at Cohen Memorial Hall.

With more than 1,000 works, the Peabody College Collection includes items ranging from antiquities to Renaissance paintings to influential mid-20th-century sculptures and other pieces. The collection has provided many works for study and exhibition across the Vanderbilt campus in recent years, as well as loans to museums around the world. Read more…

*Article by Bonnie Arant Ertelt, BS’81, Vanderbilt Magazine (Winter 2017); image: The Skyscraper Window (1934) by American painter Childe Hassam, oil on canvas. Courtesy of The Peabody College Collection, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.

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