The Heckscher Museum of Art’s collection spans 500 years with particular emphasis on art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. American landscape painting and work by Long Island artists, past and present, are particular strengths, as is American and European modernism.
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In this collage, sculptor Jean Arp creates an abstraction that subtly suggests an amoeba, egg, or life form. While most of his fellow Surrealists evoked the subconscious through representation or figures, Arp was one of the few to do so through abstraction. Undulating biomorphic forms were central to his artistic style.