New Exhibitions Opening at The Heckscher Museum of Art

The Heckscher Museum of Art is pleased to present Graphic Appeal: Modern Prints from the Collection and James Rosenquist: Tripartite Prints, opening Saturday, August 15. Featuring over five dozen exceptional works, these exhibitions highlight the significance of printmaking in 20th-century art, as artists explored the expressive range of traditional processes and developed new techniques.

Graphic Appeal: Modern Prints from the Collection features a selection of landscape, figurative, and abstract works of art produced using a variety of traditional and modern methods, including woodcut, etching, lithography, and screen printing. Together, these works reveal the varied approaches to visual expression and the exploration of process that characterize art of the modern era. Long Island holds a distinctive place in the history of 20th-century printmaking. America’s first print workshop, Universal Limited Art Editions (U.L.A.E.), was established in Islip in 1957, initiating the development of workshops across the country that encouraged the unprecedented exploration of printmaking that continues unabated to the present day.

Graphic Appeal features work by Romare Bearden, John Steuart Curry, Stuart Davis, Red Grooms, Risaburo Kimura, Robert Kipniss, Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Moore, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Emilio Sanchez, Tom Wesselman, and many others. Graphic Appeal: Modern Prints from the Collection is on view from August 15 through November 29.

James Rosenquist: Tripartite Prints features six prints from the Museum’s collection by one of the pioneers of the Pop Art Movement. In the 1970s, Rosenquist created a series of monumental lithographs that are characterized by their horizontal, three-part compositions. Exhibited together for the first time since they were donated to the collection in 1981 by Susan and Jay Zises, these prints present an expansive view of Rosenquist’s aesthetic focus, which is encoded with messages about our culture, science and technology, and the artist’s social and political concerns. Constructed of images depicting various brightly colored icons, including tire tracks, stairs, nails, stars, orbits, and the American flag, these prints reveal some of the artist’s persistent themes – communication, space exploration, and his life altering car crash of 1971 – while allowing the viewer an open-ended interpretation. James Rosenquist: Tripartite Prints is on view from August 15 through November 22.

Also opening is Street Life: Private Moments/Public Record, which features a selection of works from the Museum’s collection that form a portrait of daily life in New York City during the 20th century. This exhibition presents the urban experience as an ever-changing tableau of activity: for young and old, work, relaxation, and play unfold on the city’s streets, revealing an anonymous humanity engaged in endeavors familiar to all. Featured artists include Berenice Abbott, N. Jay Jaffee, Martin Lewis, John Sloan, Garry Winogrand, and many others. Street Life: Private Moments/Public Record is on view from August 15 through March 27, 2016.

Graphic Appeal: Modern Prints from the Collection and James Rosenquist: Tripartite Prints are sponsored in part from Suffolk County.

About The Heckscher Museum of Art:

The Heckscher Museum of Art, founded in 1920 by philanthropist August Heckscher, is located in Heckscher Park in Huntington, New York. Through its exhibitions and related programs, the Museum provides inspiring and transformative experiences to encourage a broader understanding of the past and present and to enrich life-long learning. The Museum’s collection comprises more than 2,500 works from the 16th to the 21st century, including European and American painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography. For information about The Heckscher Museum of Art, visit heckscher.org.

Museum Hours

Wednesday - Friday | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm *

Saturday and Sunday | 11:00 am - 5:00 pm *

Monday and Tuesday | Closed

* Huntington Township Residents admitted FREE Wednesdays after 2:00 pm and Saturdays before 1:00 pm. Proof of residency required.

Free Admission for Active Military Personnel, Veterans, and Family
Available to any bearer of a Geneva Convention Common Access Card (CAC), a DD Form 1173, a DD Form 1173-1, a Veteran’s DD-214, or a Veteran ID card and a driver’s license. Includes active military personnel (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, National Guard, and Reserve) or Veteran and up to five (5) family members (spouse, child, aunt, uncle, grandparent, etc.)

Above image from Graphic Appeal: Modern Prints from the Collection caption:

Robert Cottingham, Orph, 1972. Heckscher Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Mandel. © Robert Cottingham.