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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Highbeams II
Southampton artist Ty Stroudsburg was born in New Jersey and educated at Paterson University, but relocated to the East End of Long Island in 1963. She was inspired to pursue a career in art by the work of leading Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still. Throughout her career, the artist has explored the varied terrain of the Long Island landscape, focusing on texture and the effects of light and color. In describing her approach, Stroudsburg said, “This was a way to look at the world differently, and to do more than merely record the image of a certain place.”
In her more recent work, Stroudsburg has further abstracted her subject matter, reducing her compositions to expressionistic brushstrokes that emphasize color, rather than form. Highbeams II, was featured in the Heckscher Museum’s 2016 Long Island Biennial and was subsequently gifted to the Museum.