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COLLECTION ON THE ROAD: Betty Parsons’s “Tugboat”

Compiled by Jacqueline Covey

The Heckscher Museum of Art shares work from its Collection with institutions across the country and around the world. This summer, seven of our artworks are on view close to…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Richard Mayhew’s “Pescadero” (2014)

By Karli Wurzelbacher, Curator

I’m concerned with the spiritual sensitivity and the illusion of time and space. … I thought that nature was very important so I had to use some element, but that…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Alison Saar’s “Reapers”

By Justyce Bennett, Curatorial Assistant

I’ve always wanted my work not to just be angry but point toward some resolution or express some optimism. But it’s been harder and harder to come up with something…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Asher B. Durand’s “Keene Valley”

by Justyce Bennett, Curatorial Assistant

The Museum’s founder, August Heckscher, loved landscape paintings. The founding collection is rich in work from Hudson River School artists who were captivated by the natural world, including Frederic Church,…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Esphyr Slobodkina’s “Still Life with Accordion” and “Levitator #1”

by Jacqueline Covey

In a career that spanned 70 years, Russian-American artist Esphyr Slobodkina (1908-2002) championed American abstraction. She was a gifted and innovative artist and is also well-known as the author and…

COLLECTION ON THE ROAD: Three Paintings in the Hall of New York at the State Capitol Building

by Jacqueline Covey

Experts regard the Empire State Plaza Art Collection as “one of the greatest public collections of modern American art outside of a museum.” The Heckscher Museum is pleased to have…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Robert Carter’s “Mama Taught Me Piano and Much More”

by Justyce Bennett, Curatorial Assistant

“…social experiences, political experiences, economic experiences. Almost whatever you’re going through personally, what the community is going through, find their reflection in the work.” Robert Carter, 2015 In 1973, Robert…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Miriam Schapiro’s “Berthe Morisot and Me”

by Justyce Bennett, Curatorial Assistant

Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015) was a leader in the feminist art movement. She not only pushed for the visibility of women artists living in her time but also celebrated women artists…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Wood Gaylor’s “Lucy and Pascin”

By Gianna Scavo

The Heckscher Museum of Art often lends artworks from its Collection to museums across the country and beyond. Two of our works on paper by Wood Gaylor (1883-1957) are now…

Collection Spotlight: Antoine Vollon’s “Un Espagnol,” c. 1877-8

by Carol Forman Tabler, PhD

Not a portrait but a study posed by a professional model, this work has now been restored to what is presumed to be Vollon’s original title for it, Un Espagnol…

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