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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Give Up That Egg
William Holbrook Beard began his career as a portraitist, but turned to painting animal genre after returning from a trip abroad (1856-58) where he visited Dusseldorf, Italy, and Switzerland. With a talent for satirization and sensitivity towards animals and their behavior, Beard created humorous scenes of animals engaged in human activities that proved extremely popular and that often commented on human folly. Give Up That Egg depicts a protective goose protesting the mischief instigated by a brown bear, one of the artist's favorite characters. It was exhibited by the artist at the prestigious National Academy of Design in New York in 1892.