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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: Alice Rahon’s “La Conjuration des Antilopes”

By Karli Wurzelbacher, Curator
and Emily A. Finan, Curatorial Intern

In earliest times painting was magical; it was a key to the invisible. In those days the value of a work lay in its power of conjuration, a power that…

HECKSCHER HISTORY: August Heckscher: Visionary

March 1, 2020

August Heckscher (1848-1941) was born in Hamburg, Germany, and immigrated to the United States at age 19. He made his fortune in coal, zinc, copper, and real estate. The New…

Putting The Heckscher Museum of Art “On the Map”: The Legacy of Eva Ingersoll Gatling

January 5, 2020

“For me, the challenge of The Heckscher Museum of Art was the opportunity to make a small museum fully professional, my dream was to have the collection in excellent condition,…

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