Heckscher Museum of Art
The Heckscher Museum of Art is an art museum in Huntington on Long Iceland in New York State .
history
The New Yorker, German-born industrialist, property developer and benefactor August Heckscher founded the museum in 1920 in Heckscher Park in Huntington on Long Island, had the museum building built in the spirit of Beaux Arts architecture and furnished it with 185 works of art from his own collection. The financial assets of the foundation established by Heckscher were lost in the global economic crisis , so that the city of Huntington took over the museum.
A foundation independent of the city has been responsible for the museum since 1957. Since then, the museum has been able to expand its collections. In 2001 the collection grew to include a large number of paintings and drawings by American artists through a donation from Ronald G. Pisano and D. Frederick Baker .
An extension was to be financed in 2005 through the sale of George Grosz's painting Sonnenfinsternis from 1926 for US $ 19 million. Due to public protest against the sale, the plans were halted. In 2008, the building was completely renovated, which took nine months.
Duration
The museum now houses over 2,100 works of art from the past 500 years, including a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder from 1534. The collection focuses on US landscape paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries and works by artists from Long Island, as well as US and European modern art and photography.
Exhibitions
- 1973: The Poetry of Moonlight 1880-1890 .
- 1984: Richard Anuszkiewicz .
- 2016: The Magical Art of Gary Erbe .
Web links
- Official website (en.)
Coordinates: 40 ° 52 ′ 29.5 " N , 73 ° 25 ′ 18.5" W.