The exhibit 'A Timeless Legacy' is ongoing through March 27.
This installation highlights the museum's most recent acquisition, Shinnecock Hills, a Long Island landscape by the American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, who directed a summer art school on the East End of the Island during the 1890s. A selection of other works by the master and his numerous students is also on display.
This exhibition highlights the breadth and quality of the museum's 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 dedicated by Heckscher to the citizens of Huntington in 1920.
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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.
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.
