![]() ![]() To explain the presence of such an important and broad art collection housed at a small teacher’s college in the South, look no further than the progressive forces at work in education reform and philanthropic trends at the dawn of the 20th century. 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. 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. When 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. ![]() It is one of more than 1,000 works of art in the Peabody College Collection. By Bonnie Arant Ertelt, BS’81 The Skyscraper Window (1934) by American painter Childe Hassam was loaned to Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts for a 2000 exhibit.
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