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| Gillian Barlow The Vassar College Art Gallery 1987 watercolor on paper Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Barbara Bosworth Vassar Campus - European Beech 2003 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Barbara Bosworth Vassar Campus - Norway Spruce 2003 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Clarence Kerr Chatterton Vassar Art Gallery ca. 1915 oil on canvas Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Lois Conner Vassar Campus - Eastern White Pine 2004 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Lois Conner Vassar Campus - Norway Spruce 2004 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Eleanor Daniels Shakespeare Garden - Vassar College 1989 oil on canvas Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Gregory Conniff Vassar Campus - New York Ferns and Canadian Hemlocks 2005 inkjet print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Gregory Conniff Vassar Campus - Purple Beech 2005 inkjet print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Tim Davis Man descending Staircase with Painting 2010 pigment print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Frank Gohlke Vassar Campus - Apple Trees 2006 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Frank Gohlke Vassar Campus - White Oak 2006 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Jim Dow Vassar College Library Window 2008 C-print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Violet Oakley Study for West Wall, Vassar College Alumnae House 1924 watercolor and gouache on paper Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Jim Dow Vassar College Library Card Catalog 2008 C-print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Marjorie Farrell Vassar Sunlight 1989 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Tony Smith Equinox 1968 steel Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
There is nothing more acceptable unto the Ingenuous world than this noble eluctation of truth, wherin agaynst the tenacitie of prejudice, custome and prescription this centurie now prevayleth. What Vaticans of new works after ages will behold and in what a new world of knowledge the eyes of our posteritie may bee happy, were half a resurrection to behold, and is a cold thought unto those who who cannot hope to see this exantlation of truth, or that obscured virgin half out of the pitt. Which might make some desire a commutation of time in their beings, or rest content with a metempsuchosis whereby they might hope for this happinesse in their third or fourth selves, and behold that in Pythagoras which they now foresee in Euphorbus.*
The world which tooke six days to make will take above six thousand yeares to make out; meanetime old truths voted downe beginne to take their places, and new ones arise upon us, wherin there is no confort in the happines of Tullies Elizium, and cold satisfaction to bee had from the ghosts of Aristotle or the ancients. Men disparage not Antiquitie who wisely exalt new enquiries, and make not them the judges of truth butt fellowe enquirers of it. Who can butt honour the endeavors of Aristotle and the noble start which Learning and Arts had under him, or lesse than pitty the slender progression therof upon that notable advantage? While many centuries were lost in repetitions and transcriptions sealing up the booke of knowledge. And therefore rather than to continue such tautologie in writing and merely to swell the leaves of knowledge by trite and fruitlesse repetitions, to cuckoe out the same note in all ages, nor adventure at essayes beyond the leaves of others, some had rather men would write like Helmont or Paracelsus, and would endure the monstrosities of some opinions for divers singular notions requiting such aberrancies.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
*Ipse ego nam medina Troiani in tempore belli Panthoides Euphorbus eram