Exhibition & Museum
Resources Guide
JACOB
LAWRENCE:
THREE SERIES OF PRINTS
August 19 - November 5, 2006
Clockwise from top: Jacob Lawrence, Toussaint at Ennery (from the Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1989, silk screen on rag
paper, 28-3/8 x 18-1/2 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.; Jacob Lawrence, Boy with Kite (from the
Hiroshima series), 1983, silk screen print on Somerset paper, 12-7/8 x 10 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los
Angeles, CA.; Jacob Lawrence, And God created Man and Woman (from the Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on
Whatman Print Matt paper, 19 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
INSIDE
Preparing For Your Visit : p. 2-3
Exhibition Resources : p. 4-20
Introduction…………………..p. 4 Images………………………....p. 7-21
Artist Biography...………...p. 5 Art Activities……………...p. 22-23
Vocabulary……………………..p. 6 Internet Resources…….p. 24
Museum Resources : p. 25-28
August Heckscher Biography...p. 25 Educator Resources.….p. 26-27
Future Exhibitions…...p. 28
Preparing for
Your School
Discovery Visit
Please note the following
guidelines to ensure the best
experience for both you and
your students.
Materials
The School Discovery Program includes hands-on activities which utilize a
variety of materials provided by the Museum. We ask that you remind students
to pay special attention to the proper use and care of art materials. Because of
the unique in-gallery working environment, extreme care must be taken.
Students will be asked to put away and return the materials at the conclusion of
each project.
Arrival
The Museum opens promptly at 10:00 am. Unfortunately, we cannot allow
groups in before that time. Afternoon school groups may be required to wait
momentarily while morning groups exit the Museum.
Conduct
The temptation to touch artwork can be great. It is important for your
students to know that objects in the Museum are original works of art that
cannot be replaced. We invite you to look and enjoy, without touching. Also,
keep in mind that the Museum will be open to the public during the program.
All visits include discussion, independent looking, and participatory activities.
Therefore we ask that you remind students to remain with the group at all times,
unless otherwise instructed. There should be no shouting, calling out, or running
in the galleries.
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Personal Belongings
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bus. In the winter months, coat racks are available for your convenience.
Photography
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advance of your scheduled visit.
Museum Shop
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accessed by stairs. If a student requires handicapped bathroom facilities, these
are located in the adjacent cottage building.
Name Tags
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Smoking
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Museum Educators reserve the right to dismiss any group
at anytime from the Museum if they feel the group
presents a threat to the safety of works on exhibition.
ON THE COVER: Jacob Lawrence, General Toussaint L’Ouverture (from the
Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1986, silk screen on rag paper, 28-3/8 x 181/2 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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An
Introduction
to the
Exhibition:
JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
August 19 – November 5, 2006
Curated by Peter Nesbett, editor of Jacob
Lawrence, The Complete Prints (1963-2000),
The Catalogue Raisonné, and founding
director of the Jacob and Gwendolyn
Lawrence Foundation, this exhibition features
color prints created by Jacob Lawrence
between 1983 and 2000.
Since his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence has produced a
body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. In his
graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence has turned to the lessons of
history and to his own experience. From depictions of civil rights
confrontations to scenes of daily life, these images present a vision of a
common struggle toward unity and equality, a universal struggle deeply
seated in the depths of the human consciousness.
The three series of prints in this exhibition: Genesis, Toussaint L’Ouverture,
and Hiroshima, illustrate Lawrence’s approach to historical, religious,
and highly emotional subject matter. Through his use of bold color and
shape, he succeeds in making universal statements on the human
condition, celebrating human triumph despite the odds, and making
sense of the world through the visual arts.
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Above: Jacob Lawrence, General Toussaint L’Ouverture (from the
Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1986, silk screen on rag paper, 28-3/8 x
18-1/2 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
Who is Jacob LAWRENCE?
Born on September 17, 1917 in
Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob
Lawrence was an accomplished
painter. He did not create his first
print until he was 46 years old. He
made many prints inspired by, or
finding ideas from, paintings that he
created earlier in his life.
Lawrence’s artwork is often very
personal, or is inspired by his own life
experiences.
As an AfricanAmerican artist living in the United
States during the 20th century, Jacob
Jacob Lawrence (seated) with Master Printer, Lou
Lawrence had to overcome many
Stovall, signing Toussaint L’Ouverture Series.
obstacles in order to become a
successful artist. Lawrence was the
first major artist of the century to be trained and taught in Harlem and the
community became inspiration for his artwork. In 1941, Lawrence became
the first African American artist whose artwork was included in the
permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York
City, where he had a solo, or one-man, exhibition, in 1944.
Jacob Lawrence received numerous awards and honors, including the
National Medal of Arts (1990), the NAACP Annual Great Black Artists
Award (1988), and the Spingarn Medal (1970). His work has been the
subject of several major retrospectives that have traveled nationally,
originating in 1986 at Seattle Art Museum, in 1974 at the Whitney Museum
of American Art, and in 1960 at the Brooklyn Museum. When Lawrence
died in 2000 at the age of 82, he was one of the most celebrated artists in
the United States.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Vocabulary Words
SERIES – A group of artworks made by one artist that all share a
common subject, theme, or concept. Often made within the
same time frame and intended to be displayed as a group.
REPETITION – This term refers to a way of combining the elements
of art so that the same elements are used over and over
again. For example, a certain color or shape might be used
several times in the same picture.
PORTRAIT - A work of art of a person, group of people, or animal(s).
PRINTMAKING – An artistic technique in which the artist creates an
image on a plate using a variety of methods and then
transfers or “prints” the image on paper, often using a press.
Printmaking allows for the creation of multiple copies of the
same image.
SILKSCREENING – A printmaking technique based on stenciling. Ink
is brushed through a fine screen made of silk and masks are
used to produce the design.
NARRATIVE – A term used to describe art that provides a visual
representation of some kind of story, sometimes based on a
literary work.
HISTORY PAINTER – An artist who creates paintings with specific
historical subject matter.
PALETTE - (1) A tray or board on which colors of paint are mixed. (2)
The set of colors used by an artist in a work of art.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Genesis series
About the Genesis series, Jacob
Lawrence writes:
“I was baptized in the
Abyssinian Baptist Church [in
Harlem] in about 1932. There I
attended church, I attended
Sunday school, and I remember
the ministers giving very
passionate sermons pertaining
to the Creation. This was over
fifty years ago, and you know,
these things stay with you even
though you don't realize what
an impact these experiences
are making on you at the time.
As I was doing the series I think
that this was in the back of my
mind, hearing this minister talk
about these things.”
Top Right: Jacob Lawrence, And God created All the Beasts of the Earth (from
the Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt paper, 19 5/8
x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
Bottom Right: Jacob Lawrence, And God Brought Forth the Firmament and the
Water (from the Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt
paper, 19 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles,
CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, In the Beginning All was Void (from the Genesis series),
1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt paper, 19 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.
From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, And God Created all the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of
the Seas (from the Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman
Print Matt paper, 19 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, And God Created Man and Woman (from the Genesis
series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt paper, 19 5/8 x 14
3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, The Creation Was Done and All Was Well (from the
Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt paper, 19
5/8 x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Toussaint L’Ouverture series
About the Toussaint L’Ouverture series from
the Catalogue Raisonné:
“These prints are based on forty-one
paintings from a series also entitled
Toussaint
L'Ouverture,
which
was
completed in 1938 and is now in the Aaron
Douglas Collection of the Amistad
Research Center, New Orleans. The
paintings were executed in tempera and
measure 11 x 19 inches, significantly smaller
in scale than the prints. Lawrence reworked
many of the images during the process of
translating them to silk screen. When an
image has been significantly altered from
the original, that fact is noted in the catalogue entry. The captions
Lawrence provided for the paintings at the time of their execution
accompany each of the prints.
Toussaint L'Ouverture was a leader in the Haitian revolution. Born a
slave, he rose to become commander in chief of the revolutionary
army. In 1800 he coordinated the effort to draw up Haiti's first
democratic constitution. However, in 1802, before the Republic was
firmly established, Toussaint was arrested by Napoleon Bonaparte's
troops and sent to Paris, where he was imprisoned. He died in prison the
following year. In 1804 Haiti became the first black Western
republic.”
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, General Toussaint L’Ouverture (from the Toussaint L’Ouverture
series), 1986, silk screen on rag paper, 28-3/8 x 18-1/2 in. From the collection
of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, Deception (from the Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1997, silk
screen on rag paper, 18-1/2 x 28-3/4 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede,
Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, To Preserve Their Freedom (from the Toussaint L’Ouverture
series), 1988, silk screen on rag paper, 18-1/2 x 28-3/4 in. From the collection of
Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, Strategy (from
the Toussaint L’Ouverture
series), 1994, silk screen on rag
paper, 18-1/2 x 28-5/8 in.
From the collection of Alitash
Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
Jacob Lawrence, The Opener
(from
the
Toussaint
L’Ouverture series), 1997,
silk screen on rag paper, 183/4 x 28-3/4 in. From the
collection of Alitash Kebede,
Los Angeles, CA.
Jacob Lawrence, The March
(from
the
Toussaint
L’Ouverture series), 1995,
silk screen on rag paper, 18
x 28 in. From the collection
of
Alitash
Kebede,
Los
Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, The Burning (from the
Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1997,
silk screen on rag paper, 18-1/2 x 29
in.
From the collection of Alitash
Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
Jacob
Lawrence,
The
Capture (from the Toussaint
L’Ouverture series), 1987,
silk screen on rag paper, 281/4 x 18-3/8 in. From the
collection of Alitash Kebede,
Los Angeles, CA.
Jacob Lawrence, Toussaint at Ennery
(from the Toussaint L’Ouverture series),
1989, silk screen on rag paper, 18-5/8 x
29 in. From the collection of Alitash
Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Hiroshima series
About the Hiroshima series Lawrence writes:
“Several years ago I was invited by the
Limited Editions Club of New York to illustrate
a book of my choosing from a list of the
club's many titles. I selected the book
Hiroshima, written by the brilliant writer John
Hersey. This work was selected because of
its power, insight, scope, and sensitivity as
well as for its overall content. My intent was
to illustrate a series of events that were
taking place at the moment of the dropping
of the bomb... August 6, 1945. The challenge
for me was to execute eight works: a
marketplace, a playground, a street scene, a park, farmers, a family
scene, a man with birds, and a boy with a kite. Not a particular country,
not a particular city and not a particular people. "Is it not ironic that we
have produced great scientists, great musicians, great orators, chess
players, philosophers, poets and great teachers and, at the same time,
we have developed the capability and the genius to create the means
to devastate and to completely destroy our planet earth with all its life
and beauty? How could we develop such creative minds and, at the
same time develop such a destructive instrument? Only God knows the
answer. Let us hope that some day at some time, He will give us the
answer to this very perplexing question.”
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Jacob Lawrence, Family (from the Hiroshima series), 1983, silk screen
print on Somerset paper, 12-7/8 x 10 in. From the collection of Alitash
Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, Boy with Kite (from the Hiroshima
series), 1983, silk screen print on Somerset paper,
12-7/8 x 10 in.
From the collection of Alitash
Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, Market (from the Hiroshima series),
1983, silk screen print on Somerset paper, 12-7/8 x
10 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los
Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Jacob Lawrence, Playground (from the Hiroshima
series), 1983, silk screen print on Somerset paper,
12-7/8 x 10 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.
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JACOB LAWRENCE: Three Series of Prints
Art Activities
“MAKING” a Memory:
Grades K-8
Look carefully at images in Jacob Lawrence’s Genesis series.
Motivation:
(Adjust as appropriate for grade level)
Jacob Lawrence found inspiration, or got his idea, for this series from a
childhood memory. These works of art are narrative, meaning they
tell a story. What story do they tell? Who are the characters, or
people, in the story? Where are they? How do the clothing and details
in the prints help to tell us the story?
What is the mood, or how do these works of art make you feel? How
do you think Jacob Lawrence felt about this memory? How did he use
color to express these feelings?
Procedure:
Procedure
1. Have each student think of an important personal memory. And
write about it (adjust length and depth according to grade and ability
level).
2. Have students consider the following questions when writing about
their memory: Who were the people involved? What happened?
Where and when did it happen? How do they feel when they think
about the memory? How were they feeling at the time?
3. Discuss how to translate these written stories into a visual image or
images (upper grade students may elect to create a series based on
their memory whereas younger students may create a single image).
4. Create the artwork(s) using the desired media (older students may
choose to select a particular artwork to reinforce the mood or subject
of their memory.
5. Have students share their artwork with their classmates.
Ask
classmates to figure out the memory and mood expressed. Can they
relate to the memory? How does the artwork make them feel?
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“Writing” History SERIES:
Grades 9-12
Look carefully at the prints in Jacob Lawrence’s series Toussaint
L’Ouverture and Hiroshima.
Motivation:
What do you think Jacob Lawrence (or any artist who is creating a series
based on a historical event or figure) did before he began these prints?
How did he go about turning his research into visual imagery?
The two different stories that these narrative print series tell express
very different moods, or feelings. What moods do they create? How
did Lawrence use color, shape, line, composition, and repetition to
create these moods and communicate their message?
Procedure:
1. Write names of various historical events and/or figures on papers and
have students pick them at random. (You may elect to have students
generate these ideas themselves, or, to further the lesson’s
interdisciplinary value, use events and figures students are currently
discussing in their history lessons.)
2. Discuss the importance of research when creating historically-based
works of art. Devote several class meetings and/or homework time
to researching the events and figures chosen.
3. Guide students in analyzing the gathered information in terms of their
own artistic interests. Of course, not all of the information will be
able to be incorporated into their series. What aspect of the person’s
life or historical event would they like to emphasize or focus on and
why? Encourage students to think creatively. What is their message
and how will they communicate it through choice of subject matter
and the elements and principles of art (use of color, shape, line,
composition, etc.).
4. Have students carefully plan all aspects of their narrative series.
What media will they use? How will this contribute to the desired
message and/or mood? How many images will be appropriate to
include in their series? Why?
5. Once the works of art are completed, have students present their
series to their classmates and describe the message/narrative
they hoped to communicate. According to their classmates,
are the series effective in achieving/expressing this message?
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JACOB LAWRENCE:
Three Series of Prints
Internet Resources
Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints Exhibition website
Includes exhibition description, specific series-related text, and
digital images. URL: http://www.a-r-t.com/lawrence/
Whitney Museum of American Art
Interactive website for exhibition Jacob Lawrence: Telling Stories.
Includes exhibition overview, images, artist biography, and lesson plan
ideas. URL: http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/
Ohio University
Past exhibition venue article describing Lawrence’s work.
URL: http://www.ohiou.edu/infocus/genesis/
Artcyclopedia
Links to Lawrence’s artworks in museum collections and articles on
the artist’s life and work.
URL: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/lawrence_jacob.html
www.pbs.org
Describes Lawrence’s role as a “history painter,” creation of Toussaint
L’Ouverture series, and a 1995 interview with the artist.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/jan-june00/lawrence_6-13.html
Artcyclopedia
Links to Lawrence’s artworks in museum collections and articles on
the artist’s life and work.
URL: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/lawrence_jacob.html
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Who is August Heckscher?
Born in Hamburg, Germany on
August 27, 1848, August
Heckscher was to become one of
the foremost capitalists and
philanthropists in the United States.
August Heckscher was to fulfill the “American
dream” of financial success and personal
accomplishment. Arriving in this country, he
turned his attentions to industry and real estate,
becoming a well-respected operator and general
manager.
Toward the latter years of his life, August
Heckscher began the most important chapter of
Penrhyn Stanlaws, August Heckscher, oil
his career. As a philanthropist, he focused on
on canvas, 47 ½ x 34 ¼ in., Heckscher
Museum of Art, August Heckscher
social issues and child welfare. Creating the
Collection.
Heckscher Children’s Foundation (now home of El
Museo del Barrio), he sought to eradicate slum dwellings in New York City.
Heckscher established playgrounds in lower Manhattan and purchased
Heckscher State Park in East Islip, New York.
In 1918, he purchased the Prime Avenue property adjoining the Historic Old First
Church in Huntington, New York. He created a park for children and adults to
enjoy. In 1919, the Heckscher Museum of Art, a beautiful beaux-arts style fine arts
building, was added to the property. Heckscher’s original collection of 185
paintings and sculptures, including art from the Renaissance, the Hudson River
School, and early modernist American art, filled the Museum. When the Museum
opened its doors in 1920, Heckscher dedicated the Museum and surrounding park
to the people of Huntington, especially “to the little birds that migrate, and to the
little children who fortunately do not.”
August Heckscher passed away on April 26, 1941 at the age of 92. The Long Islander
described him in an obituary as “perhaps the finest benefactor that Huntington
ever had.” Since his death, the Heckscher Museum of Art has continued to collect
artwork in his legacy, with a permanent collection now featuring over
2,000 works.
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Educator Resources
All materials are available for loan by classroom and art teachers.
A $25.00 refundable deposit is required for a two week rental.
Please call the Education Department at 631.351.3214 for availability.
Exhibition-related Educator Slide Packets
Art History Slides are available for the following exhibitions past & present:
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William H. Johnson: A Retrospective from the
National Museum of American Art
Studio Museum in Harlem: Twenty-five Years
of African American Art
Dale Chihuly: Seaforms
Visions of a Changing America: Depression Era
Prints from the Collection of Herschel & Fern
Cohen
Modern American Realism:
The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
from the National Museum of American Art
Shaping a Generation: The Art and Artists of
Betty Parsons
Coney Island to Caumsett:
The Photographic Journey of N. Jay Jaffee,
1947-1997
Millennium Messages
Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper
Portraits by Carl Ven Vechten
Walter O. Evans Collection of African American
Art
Hans Namuth: Portraits
Aaron Copland’s America
Jane Wilson: Land | Sea | Sky
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Spirit of the Mask
Light, Color, Spirit: Esteban Vicente
Robert Henri and His Influence
The Photography of Alfred Steiglitz: Georgia
O’Keefe’s Enduring Legacy
The Unexpected: Artists’ Ceramics of the 20th
Century
Treasures from El Museo del Barrio
Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu
Donné Papermill
Louise Nevelson: Selections from the
Farnsworth Art Museum
Genetic Expressions: Art After DNA
Graphic Masters: Highlights from the
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Golden Age of American Impressionism
Red Grooms: Selections from the Graphic Work
American Studio Glass: A Survey of the
Movement
A Century of Collecting
Feast the Eye, Fool the Eye
A New Narrative: Marden, Fitzpatrick, Stella,
Warhol
Free Posters**
Archived exhibition-related art posters are available free of charge. Exhibitions
include the following: The Golden Age of American Impressionism; Aaron
Copland’s America; Dale Chihuly: Seaforms; and others.
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* Limited supply. Available on a first come, first serve basis.
Videos
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Helen Frankenthaler
Lee Krasner
Esteban Vicente: Portrait of an Artist
Elaine de Kooning: A Portrait
Louise Nevelson in Process: Portrait of an
Artist, Sculptor/Installation
AFRICAN-AMERICAN
ARTISTS
1.
2.
The Life and Art of William H. Johnson:
Harlem Renaissance Painter
Howardena Pindell: Atomizing Art
FAUVISM
1.
IMPRESSIONISM/
GLASSMAKING
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
1.
2.
3.
A Day in the Country:
Impressionism and the
French Landscape
Monet in the Twentieth
Century
In a Brilliant Light: Van
Gogh in Arles
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2.
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4.
PHOTOGRAPHY
1.
2.
3.
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Edward J. Steichen
Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
John Baldessari
Milton Rogovin
A Touch of Glass: Steps in
Glassmaking
Dale Chihuly-1998: American
Glassmaker
Chihuly Installations– 1992
Chihuly: River of Glass
MINIMALISM
1.
2.
Robert Mangold
Frank Stella: Painter and
Sculptor
INSTALLATION
1.
2.
Judy Pfaff, Alan Jones and
Kenneth Snelson
Louise Nevelson in Process:
Portrait of an Artist
George Segal: Raw
George Segal, William Scott, Sally Avery
and March Avery Cavanaugh
3. Nancy Graves
4. Frederick E. Hart: Past, Present and Future
5. Lee Krasner, Doug Hollis and Alan Sonfist
6. Eduardo Chillida: Portrait of an Artist,
Abstract
7. Anthony Caro and Henri Moore: Abstract
8. Carle Andre: Minimalist, Richard
Artschwager and Sonia Delauney
9. Tony Smith: Minimalist
10. Calder’s Circus: American Kinetic Artist
POP ART
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2.
3.
Roy Lichtenstein:
Painter & Sculptor
Jim Dine
Red Grooms:
Contemporary
MISCELLANEOUS
SCULPTORS
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2.
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Matisse: Portrait of
an Artist
The Matisse I Knew
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John James Audubon: The Birds of America,
Naturalist/ Painter
2. Illya Bolotowsky: Neo Plasticism Painter
3. Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait
4. Eads Bridge Mirror Show: Saint Louis in the
Gilded Age
5. Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait, American
Realist Painter
6. NC Wyeth: American Golden Age Illustrator
7. Papermaking: Video Workshop
8. B. Novak and B. O’Doherty on 19th Century
American Painting
9. The Baseball Player from the
Guilded
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Future exhibitions
at the Heckscher Museum of Art
East Coast/West Coast & Beyond:
Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist
November 14, 2006 - January 28, 2007
An American Impressionist artist who truly captured the spirit of his surroundings, Colin
Campbell Cooper’s (1858-1937) career is defined by his education on the east coast and later
years on the west. This exhibition includes approximately 65 paintings celebrating color and
light during both periods of Cooper’s artistic career.
Abstract, Figurative, & Historical: Picturing Long Island
February 3, 2007 - March 25, 2007
This exhibition features artwork in a variety of media and techniques by local Long Island
artists as well as works of art from our permanent collection.
Ansel Adams & Edwin Land: Art, Science, & Invention,
Photographs from the Polaroid Collection
March 31, 2007 - June 25, 2007
This exhibition features 100 photographs by famed photographer Ansel Adams created as the
product of a lifelong friendship and creative collaboration with Edwin Land, a scientist who
pioneered the invention of instant film and cameras in the 1940s. Includes many one-of-a-kind
Polaroid images and some of Adams’ most famous images.
For further information on our upcoming events & exhibitions,
please visit our website at http://www.heckscher.org
Education Department Staff Call 631.351.3214
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Huntington NY 11743
631.351.3250
www.heckscher.org
Joy Weiner
Director of Education & Public Programs
Kristina Seekamp
Coordinator of School and Youth Programs
Lucy Taylor
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Coordinator of Docents & Adult Group Programs