exhibition brochure - the Heckscher Museum of Art

EXHIBITION CHECKLIST
ABBOTT, Berenice
West Street, 1936 (printed 1982)
Gelatin silver print, 18-5/8 x 23-1/4 in.
Gift of Mr. Morton Brozinsky
FLACK, Audrey
Lady Madonna, 1972
Lithograph on paper with gold leaf, 34 x 24 in.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Mandel
SCHAPIRO, Miriam
Berthe Morisot & Me, c. 1976
Collage, 21-3/8 x 29-1/2 in.
Gift of Drs. Constance and Lee Koppelman
BAUERMEISTER, Mary
Sketch for Tanglewood Press, c. 1966
Lithograph on paper, with mixed media attachments to
cover glass, 17-1/8 x 21-7/8 in.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milton M. Gardner
FOSS, Cornelia
Ominous Sky, 1996
Oil on linen, 54 x 52 in.
Gift of the Artist
SHAPIRO, Dee
Isla Ninos, 1981
Acrylic on canvas, 48 in. diameter
Gift of Drs. Constance and Lee Koppelman
FRANK, Mary
Woman with Palms, early 1970s
Terra cotta, 14-1/4 x 16-3/4 x 8 in.
Gift of Martin, Richard, Nancy and James Sinkoff in
loving memory of their parents, Alice and Marvin
Sinkoff
SHERBELL, Rhoda
Aaron Copland, 1976
Bonded bronze, 20-3/4 x 10 x 11 in. (including base)
Gift of Dr. Mark Weinstein and Susan Honig Weinstein
BREWSTER, Anna Richards
At Aswan on the Nile, c. 1912
Oil on canvasboard, 8-3/4 x 13-3/4 in.
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection
BROWN, Charlotte
Black Peony, 1988
Computer transfer process collage on handmade paper
with rope, 18 x 18 x 3-1/4 in.
Gift of Jonathan David Brown
BUONAGURIO, Toby
Mirror Parrots, 1978
Colored pencil on paper, 29-7/8 x 22 in.
Gift of the Artist
CAGGIANO, Margery
Blue Bulb, 1974
Oil on canvas, 36-1/2 x 48-1/2 in.
Museum Purchase: Partial funding provided by the
Creative Artists Public Service Program
Esphyr Slobodkina, ‘Doodled Up’, late 1940s-early 1950s.
Marguerite Zorach, Moonlight, 1910 [detail]. © The Zorach Collection, LLC.
CALLERY, Mary
Tree, 1959
Brass, 37-1/4 x 19 x 22-7/8 in.
Gift of the Estate of Mary Callery
CONTESSA, Sue
Blue Bamboo, 2007
Acrylic on canvas with pencil, 43 x 50 in.
Gift of the Artist
CULBERTSON, Janet
Scene VIII, 1979
Ink and acrylic on paper, knife drawing, 27-7/16 x
21-7/8 in.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Miller
DE KOONING, Elaine
Black Mountain #6, 1948
Enamel on paper mounted on canvas, 13-1/2 x 16-3/8 in.
Museum Purchase
DEGENNARO, Grace
Nightblooms, 2008
Oil on linen, 48 x 30 in.
Museum Purchase
DEHNER, Dorothy
Landscape, 1976
Bronze, 11-3/4 x 22 x 9-5/8 in.
Gift of the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual
Arts, Inc.
HAMMOND, Jane
Presto, 1991
Ten-color lithograph with silk-screen and collage, 39-3/8
x 25-5/8 in.
Museum Purchase: Friends and Collectors Circle Fund
KNOTT, Cynthia
The Three Graces (Grace III), 1996
Oil, encaustic and metallic on linen, 18-3/8 x 24-1/8 in.
Museum Purchase
LONGMAN, Evelyn Beatrice
Youth Eternal, 1920
Marble, with bronze water spout, 77-1/2 x 140-1/2 x
102 in.
August Heckscher Collection
MANN, Katinka
Green 2, 1984
Dimensional photographic cutout, Cibachrome print,
23 x 23 x 6 in.
Gift of the Artist
MORAN, Mary Nimmo
Solitude, 1880
Etching on paper, 5-1/2 x 7-5/8 in.
Gift of Mrs. Hubert de Jaeger
MYERS, Ethel
Flowered Gown, c. 1910s
Bronze, 8-1/2 in. high
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection
NICHOLLS, Rhoda Holmes
Thistle Down and Dark Trees, Shinnecock, c. 1890s
Watercolor on paper, 10 x 14 in.
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection
O’KEEFFE, Georgia
Machu Picchu, Peru, c. 1956
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 11-7/8 in.
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection
PARSONS, Betty
Gulf of Mexico, c. 1951
Oil and gouache on masonite, 48 x 36 in.
Gift of the Betty Parsons Foundation
PEDERSON-KRAG, Gillian
Landscape, 1991
Etching on paper, 8-1/8 x 10-1/8 in.
Gift of the Artist
SLOBODKINA, Esphyr
‘Doodled Up’, late 1940s-early 1950s
Oil and fabric on gessoed masonite, 7-1/2 x 18 in.
Gift of the Artist
STERNE, Hedda
Outboard Motor, 1948
Oil on canvas, 31-3/4 x 23-5/8 in.
Gift of the Artist in memory of Betty Parsons
STEVENS, May
Big Daddy Paper Doll, 1971
Serigraph on paper, 21 x 35 in.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Orlinsky
STUART, Michelle
Voyage to the South Seas: Flora Australis, 1989
Etching with aquatint and chine collé on paper, 23-1/2
x 29-15/16 in.
Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New
York; Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds
TINT, Francine
Cloud Nine, 1999
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 in.
Gift of Jonathan and Puja London
TORR, Helen
Night Spirit, c. 1927
Oil on metal, 11-7/8 x 8-3/8 in.
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection
WHITNEY, Gertrude Vanderbilt
Titanic Head, 1914
Bronze, 4-3/8 in. high
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection
WILSON, Helen Miranda
Interior Kitchen, 1980
Oil on Anco panel, 10 x 14 in.
Gift of Martin, Richard, Nancy and James Sinkoff in
loving memory of their parents, Alice and Marvin
Sinkoff
WILSON, Jane
Midsummer Midnight, 1993
Oil on canvas, 48 x 45 in.
Gift of Mr. John Jonas Gruen
WRIGHT, Alice Morgan
Nude, before 1930
Monotype on paper, 5-1/2 x 5-3/4 in.
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection
PINDELL, Howardena Doreen
Relationships (Kandinsky #1), 1996
Mixed media, 90 x 90 in.
Museum Purchase
DOUGENIS, Miriam
Poor Butterfly, 1986
Watercolor on paper, 18 x 26 in.
Gift of the Artist
POLLAN, Ruthellen
Genesis, 1969
Ink on paper, 17-7/8 x 23 in.
Gift of Mr. Larry Katz
ZIRIN, Nola
Architectural Fragment, 1993
Pencil, pastel, oil crayon and graphite on blue-toned
paper, 30 x 22 in.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Rice
DRIGGS, Elsie
Riot, c. 1929
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 11-1/2 x 9 in.
Gift of Martin, Richard, Nancy and James Sinkoff in
loving memory of their parents, Alice and Marvin
Sinkoff
RALPH, Pat
Remembering Long Island; Sunken Meadow Dunes, 2008
Oil on linen, 26 x 28 in.
Gift of Anne Cohen DePietro
ZORACH, Marguerite
Moonlight, 1910
Oil on panel, 16 x 12-3/4 in.
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection
FISHER, Ellen Thayer
Lady Slipper, 1878
Watercolor on paper, 11-3/4 x 6-9/16 in.
Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection
ROSER, Ce
Solar Talent, 1980
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jens Jebsen
ROUX, Barbara
Ecology: Glass, 2002
Color chromogenic print, 20 x 16 in.
Gift of the Artist
December 5, 2015 – April 3, 2016
STEBBINS, Emma
Commerce, 1860
Marble, 23-7/8 x 10-1/2 x 10-1/4 in.
Gift of Phillip M. Lydig III
DODSON, Lillian
Earth Skin, 1972
Acrylic on canvas, 65 x 43-3/4 in.
Museum Purchase
EMMERT, Pauline Gore
Carageen II, n.d.
Oil on canvas, 36 x 25 in.
Gift of the Artist
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Audrey Flack, Lady Madonna, 1972 [detail]. Courtesy of the Louis K. Meisel Gallery & Audrey Flack.
BRESLOW, Lisa
Island Bay #2, 2005
Oil on panel, 20 x 20 in.
Gift of the Artist
You Go Girl!
You Go Girl!
Over the past several years, The Heckscher Museum of Art has
mounted a series of exhibitions that have explored various aspects
of the Permanent Collection. Like most public institutions, the
Museum’s holdings are predominantly comprised of work by male
artists. The cultural environment in the western world may seem
gender neutral today, yet female artists throughout history faced
numerous challenges not experienced by their male colleagues.
The scholarly studies by feminist historians like Linda Nochlin and
others of the 1970s explored some of the many obstacles faced by
women artists until the late-19th century, most notably the lack of
access to formal training, the conventions that prevented them from
studying the nude model at a time when depiction of the human
figure was crucial to artistic achievement, and a social setting that
situated women firmly in the domestic realm as wives, mothers, and
guardians of the home. Although women achieved more freedoms
in the early-20th century, most significantly the right to vote, they
continued to compete for recognition within a system of galleries,
museums, and universities dominated by men. Artists of the 1970s
addressed the plight of the female artist and the patriarchy of the art
establishment in protests at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney
Museum of American Art, and elsewhere. Howardeena Pindell, Ce
Roser, and many others joined together to form numerous activist
organizations and cooperative galleries that provided women artists
an opportunity to network, exhibit their work, and advance their
cause to end discrimination against women in the arts.
Feminism, the belief that everyone is entitled to a life of dignity, has evolved over several
centuries and brought women in the Western world unprecedented opportunities.
–Judy Chicago, 2014
Early feminist artists like Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago
challenged traditional boundaries by incorporating crafts
traditionally associated with women in their work, drawing upon
the long history of women in the applied arts. Others, such as May
Stevens and Audrey Flack, worked within traditional mediums
to challenge male authority in overt or subtle ways. Most women,
however, created art similar in form and content to that of their
male colleagues, as reflected in the majority of work by women
artists in the Museum’s collection. While artists such as Emma
Stebbins, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Georgia O’Keeffe, Esphyr
Slobodkina, Betty Parsons, and Jane Wilson achieved widespread
recognition for their artistic and cultural accomplishments, many
others, less well known, produced equally significant work that
broadens our visual and intellectual experience, as evidenced by the
artists in You Go Girl!.
You Go Girl! is sponsored in part by Frank Lourenso & Gary Stevens Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, and by The John Hahn Foundation.
This brochure is underwritten by the Lachlan P. Braden Memorial Fund.
Clockwise from top: Cornelia Foss, Ominous Sky, 1996; Berenice Abbott, West Street, 1936 (printed 1982) [detail]. © Berenice Abbott; Ce Roser, Solar Talent, 1980 [detail]. © Ce Roser; Helen Torr, Night Spirit, c. 1927 [detail]; Miriam Schapiro, Berthe Morisot & Me, c. 1976 [detail]. © Miriam Schapiro; Jane Hammond, Presto, 1991 [detail]. Courtesy of the Artist and ULAE.