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The Heckscher Museum is pleased to announce the acquisition of three important works by major American artists strengthening the Museum's considerable holdings of Long Island art. William Merritt Chase's impressionist study, Shinnecock Hills, John Marin's abstract oil painting, Huntington, Long Island #1, and Ray Johnson's collage, Untitled (Peter Beard Profile with Tarot Card, Cornell Bunnies, and Buddha). The acquisitions were made possible through a generous bequest from the Estate of Theresa A. Cwierzyk and Sidney Gordon.
The bequest, which contained sixty-five 19th- and early 20th- century American paintings, as well as amphora pieces and Tiffany lamps and objects, came to the Museum during the second half of 2009. This was truly a gift to the Museum as the Estate's only stipulation was if the Museum chose not to accession the objects into its Permanent Collection, they must be sold at auction with the proceeds used solely to acquire works for the Museum's Permanent Collection. While many of the works from the bequest were accessioned into the Permanent Collection, pieces that did not meet Collection criteria were sold at auction, providing sufficient funds to purchase the three significant works, all of which will be on view in exhibitions during 2011.
Featured in A Timeless Legacy, on view January 15 through March 27, 2011, William Merritt Chase's impressionist study, Shinnecock Hills, broadens the Museum's strong collection of American landscape painting. Chase was among the most influential and successful artists of his day and may have been the most important teacher of his generation, with thousands of students during a career of almost four decades. Chase first visited Long Island with fellow Tile Club members on sketching trips to the North Shore in 1880 and 1881. Shinnecock Hills, executed on Long Island's East End where Chase established a summer school in 1891, is a handsome addition to the Museum's current holdings of Chase drawings, prints, and paintings.
Both the Marin and Johnson works were included in the Museum's Long Island Moderns exhibition in 2009 and are scheduled to be featured in Permanent Collection exhibitions later in 2011. Marin's abstract painting Huntington, Long Island #1 is one of a series of paintings he executed of the view towards Huntington Harbor from the Halesite home of Sue Davidson Lowe, grandniece of Marin's dealer Alfred Stieglitz. In Untitled (Peter Beard profile with Tarot Card, Cornell Bunnies, and Buddha), Johnson pays tribute to the artists Peter Beard and Joseph Cornell. Johnson, who lived in Locust Valley for 25 years, is among America's most avant-garde artists.
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