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Pop-up exhibit and tour of 19th-century needle arts
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Eleanor Hodgson (British), Sampler, 1749, silk embroidery on linen. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. Gift of Tessa Bowman Smith, class of 1954, originally given by her father Wilfrid Venn Bowman, on her 19th birthday 2003.23.
A 1:30 p.m. pop-up exhibit and lecture at Locust Grove Estate, followed by a 3:30 p.m. tour at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. Free and open to the public.
At the Locust Grove Estate, get a rare up-close look at 19th-century embroidered pictures, exploring changes in needle arts over three generations of the Hasbrouck and Young families. Then tour the special exhibition Between the Lines: Innovation and Expression in Women’s Sewing Samplers at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College.
