Collection Spotlights Archives - The Heckscher Museum of Art

Smarthistory Highlights Emma Stebbbins Sculptures

September 3, 2026

Smarthistory, an online center for public art history, has chosen three Emma Stebbins sculptures to highlight the important work Stebbins accomplished during her lifetime. The video, with commentary from Dr.…

Collection Spotlight: PaJaMa Collective

All of Me With All of You: LGBTQ+ Art Out of the Collection Through September 14, 2025 Sponsors: Michelle Hatzopoulos & Evangeline Knell; Andrea & Neil Kreinik; Alicia L. Ruberti…

Collection Spotlight:McCausland and Maurer

By Jessica Rosen, Curatorial Assistant This collection spotlight is the second in a series that highlights the voice of the important art critic and art historian Elizabeth McCausland (American, 1899–1965),…

Collection Spotlight: Elizabeth McCausland and Arthur Dove

By Jessica Rosen, Curatorial Assistant This collection spotlight is the first in a series that highlights the voice of the important art critic and art historian Elizabeth McCausland (American, 1899–1965),…

Richard Mayhew 1924-2024

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 was…

Collection Spotlight: Deborah Buck’s They Had Stars in Their Eyes

July 9, 2024

In a far-reaching recent interview, artist Deborah Buck recently spoke about her work and process, particularly They Had Stars in Their Eyes featured in The Rains are Changing Fast: New…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Stella Waitzkin’s Sculpture

Compiled by Jacqueline Covey

In 2021, the Heckscher Museum acquired sixteen sculptures by Stella Waitzkin (1920−2003). The collection of glass, cast resin, and found objects will be on view for the first time in…

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
February 2022

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,…

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