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New Acquisitions Point to Museum Future

May 14, 2021

While celebrating its history in The Heckscher Museum Celebrates 100, the Museum is looking toward the future with acquisitions that assert its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. One of…

Museum Acquisitions Celebrate Women Artists

The Heckscher Museum of Art will acquire new artwork from two leading women artists: Stella Waitzkin and Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso. “These acquisitions strengthen the Museum’s collection and affirm our commitment…

ADOPT A WORK OF ART: Ira Jean Belmont Painting Adopted by Winifred F. Baim

Care and preservation of the collection is one of the principal responsibilities of a museum. Even in controlled museum environments, objects age. Exposure to light and atmospheric debris can discolor…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Emma Stebbins’s “Industry” and “Commerce”

By Karli Wurzelbacher, Curator

She finally resolved on an exclusive consecration of her talents to art, making it the sole business of her life. She determined to go to Rome … It is probably…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Hans Hokanson’s “Little Gull”

By Emily A. Finan, Curatorial Intern

I am influenced by the volume and the availability of the wood … The wood itself kicks me off, encourages me, speaks back to me. I am in direct confrontation…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Howardena Pindell’s “Relationships (Kandinsky #1)”

By Karli Wurzelbacher, Curator

In Relationships (Kandinsky #1) (1996), Howardena Pindell blends varied artistic languages to create a multimedia work bursting with energy and meaning. The diamond-shaped acrylic on canvas painting will be a…

BEHIND THE SCENES: Art Conservation for “The Heckscher Celebrates 100” Exhibition

By Karli Wurzelbacher, Curator
and Christine M.A. Marzano, Registrar

The Heckscher Museum may be temporarily closed to the public, but our mission of preserving and interpreting our collection of 2,300 objects continues. We are now finalizing arrangements for next…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Thomas Moran’s “The Woods in Autumn”

By Michael W. Schantz, Ph.D., Executive Director & CEO

The Woods in Autumn (1864) by Thomas Moran (1837-1926) was an instant favorite of mine when I first arrived at the Museum in the Fall of 2010. Indeed, at first…

Dove/Torr Cottage Featured in Two New Books

May 20, 2020

The Dove/Torr Cottage, the historic studio and home of American artists Helen Torr (1886-1967) and Arthur Dove (1880-1946), is highlighted in two new books published this spring. The Dove/Torr Cottage…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Fairfield Porter’s “Elizabeth in a Red Chair”

By Karli Wurzelbacher, Curator

As the wholeness of life eludes control, so the wholeness of art eludes the control of the artist. The realist thinks he knows ahead of time what reality is, and…

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