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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Jackson in Action
After a brief period of experimentation with performance art and filmmaking in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Red Grooms developed an idiosyncratic Pop style characterized by chaotic activity and humorous detail. Executed with naive charm, his miniature interiors and life-size environments focus on the pulsating rhythm of city life and human incident. Grooms began his first series of artist portraits in the late 1970s and has since portrayed many iconic 20th century artists, including Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. Often produced as three-dimensional lithographs, these portraits convey a unique sculptural quality.
In Jackson in Action, Grooms depicts Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock making one of his signature drip paintings. Grooms depicts Pollock with six arms in order to demonstrate the importance of gesture as he applies paint to the canvas. The black paint that falls from his several brushes stands out as separate elements.