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Student Awards Announced for Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2019

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April 2019

The Heckscher Museum of Art has announced the top awards for Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2019. The prestigious juried competition received 359 entries from 57…

Art in Bloom at The Heckscher Museum 2019

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April 2019

The North Country Garden Club, Locust Valley, and the Three Harbors Garden Club, Cold Spring Harbor, are brightening The Heckscher Museum galleries for Art in Bloom, on view June 8…

United Nations Secretary-General Visits Heckscher Museum of Art

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February 2019

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visited The Heckscher Museum of Art recently to tour the exhibition Rivera and Beyond: Latin American Art from the Joan and Milton Bagley Collection. Heckscher…

In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870-1940: Works from the Bank of America Collection

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February 2019

The Heckscher Museum of Art presents a sweeping survey of American Impressionism with its new exhibition, In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870-1940, Works from the Bank of American Collection.…

CALL TO ARTISTS: Join The Heckscher Museum’s Emerging Artists Series 2019

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January 2019

What: Long Island Artists are invited to apply to Heckscher Museum’s new Emerging Artists Series 2019 When: Immediately (Rolling Application) Where: Heckscher.org About the Opportunity: The Emerging Artists Series 2019…

The Heckscher Collects: Recent Acquisitions

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January 2019

Significant new acquisitions from The Heckscher Museum of Art are on exhibit — most for the first time. These 24 paintings, prints, and photographs demonstrate the continued evolution and growth…

Collection of a Lifetime: Couple’s Latin American Art at Heckscher

Newsday
BY DEIDRE S. GREBEN

November 16, 2018

“It looks like a plucked chicken,” Milton Bagley says of his Woodbury home. The 90-year-old retired ad man is lamenting the many empty walls and bare spaces in the house…