Across Time & Place: Treasures From the Permanent Collection October 21, 2011

This exhibition highlights the breadth and quality of the Permanent Collection of the Heckscher Museum of Art, which was founded in 1920 by industrialist and philanthropist August Heckscher. Heckscher's eclectic collection of Old Master paintings, English portraiture, and 19th-century European and American art formed the Museum's core collection and established a high level of artistic accomplishment for subsequent acquisitions. This installation also includes a selection of works by 19th- and 20th-century American artists that depict waterfalls and the moon, providing context to similarly themed works in the Museum's concurrent exhibition 'Earth Matters.'