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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After attending the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Jean Sariano studied printmaking at the Pratt Graphic Center and the Printmaking Workshop in New York in the 1960s and 70s. His prints exude a youthful spirit through their brightly colored, simplified, and flattened shapes. In this work, Sariano creates a dynamic interplay of vibrant forms. Although the subject is not immediately recognizable because of the close cropping, its parts create a lively assemblage of silhouettes that pulsate across the composition. The title, which alludes to the famous opening lines of fairy tales, associates the bicycle subject with the pleasures of childhood.