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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The Cuban-born artist Emilio Sanchez was fascinated by the play of strong sunlight on architecture. His signature images—awnings, windows, and building facades—reveal the transformative effects of light and shadow on flat surfaces. Working in Cuba, New York, and Morocco, Sanchez focused on repetitive architectural features that took on an abstract formal quality. Devoid of people, his compositions evoke surrealist undertones similar to the work of Giorgio de Chirico. Sanchez acknowledged this stylistic connection, writing to Miami art critic Helen Kohen in 1994, “Somebody wrote once that I am a surrealist because there are no doorknobs on my doors!”, yet insisted that his use of shadows, lines, and bright colors were merely a “play on design,” and not intentionally “mean[t] to be . . . abstract.”