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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Casco Bay - Coast of Maine
If the student will watch patiently, he will find that the principal lines of a breaker nearing the shore will be repeated by the fifth or sixth succession after it. The most effective breakers are produced when the outgoing and incoming waves meet at a favorable distance from the shore, and these waves regularly repeat the same forms and topple over in the same places. The student may watch one of them, shut his eyes to photograph it mentally when it begins to break, and [then] sketch in its principal masses of form and spray.