Art Exhibition: A Timeless Legacy

This exhibition highlights the breadth and quality of the Permanent Collection, which is devoted to European and American art.

Founded by industrialist and philanthropist August Heckscher, the Museum's core collection comprises Old Master paintings, English portraiture and 19th century European and American art that was gifted by Heckscher to the citizens of Huntington in 1920. 

Among the works on view from the original Heckscher gift are Lucas Cranach the Elder's Virgin, Child, St. John the Baptist and Angels, 1534, the earliest painting in the collection, Franz Wolfgang Rohrich's Charles V of Holland and Jeanne La Folle, His Mother, Melchoir d'Hondecoeter's Stripped of Borrowed Feathers: The Raven-Jackdaw and Francois Girardon's rare bronze, Rape of Proserpine, 1693.  Heckscher was especially fond of landscape paintings, particularly those with a romantic sensibility, as seen in works by Ralph Albert Blakelock, Edward Moran and Thomas Moran.  Also on view are notable subsequent acquisitions, including George Grosz's masterpiece, Eclipse of the Sun, 1926 and Marsden Hartley's Garmisch-Partenkirchen #1, 1933-34, as well as Helen Frankenthaler's July understated, 1967, which is on extended loan from the Heckscher family. 

This exhibiotion can be viewed Wednesday to Fridays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m.-5 pm.

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