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 Venice of the Poets
Félix François-Georges-Philibert Ziem is known primarily for his sun-drenched scenes of Venice. An inveterate traveler throughout his life, Ziem visited the Middle East and India, as well as countries throughout Europe, but it was Venice and Constantinople that most inspired him. Between 1845 and 1892, he made annual visits to Venice, attracted by its exoticism and the particular quality of its light and atmosphere. Ziem painted hundreds of views of the city, executed in sparkling, brilliant color with a spontaneity of touch which presages the Impressionists. The Venice of the Poets is seen from the Riva degli Schiavoni. To the right is the Library, beyond the columns the Doge's Palace and the Campanile. To the left is the dome of Santa Maria della Salute. Another, slightly smaller, version of this view is in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art.