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Introduction…………………..p. 4 Artist Biography...………...p. 5 Vocabulary……………………..p. 6

Images………………………....p. 7-21 Art Activities……………...p. 22-23 Internet Resources…….p. 24

August Heckscher Biography...p. 25 Educator Resources.….p. 26-27 Future Exhibitions…...p. 28

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August 19 - November 5, 2006

LAWRENCE: THREE SERIES OF PRINTS

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Clockwise from top: Jacob Lawrence, Toussaint at Ennery (from the Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1989, silk screen on rag

paper, 28-3/8 x 18-1/2 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.; Jacob Lawrence, Boy with Kite (from the

Hiroshima series), 1983, silk screen print on Somerset paper, 12-7/8 x 10 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los

Angeles, CA.; Jacob Lawrence, And God created Man and Woman (from the Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on

Whatman Print Matt paper, 19 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

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Please note the following

guidelines to ensure the best

experience for both you and

your students.

Materials

The School Discovery Program includes hands-on activities which utilize a variety of materials provided by the Museum. We ask that you remind students to pay special attention to the proper use and care of art materials. Because of the unique in-gallery working environment, extreme care must be taken. Students will be asked to put away and return the materials at the conclusion of each project. Arrival The Museum opens promptly at 10:00 am. Unfortunately, we cannot allow groups in before that time. Afternoon school groups may be required to wait momentarily while morning groups exit the Museum. Conduct

The temptation to touch artwork can be great. It is important for your students to know that objects in the Museum are original works of art that cannot be replaced. We invite you to look and enjoy, without touching. Also, keep in mind that the Museum will be open to the public during the program. All visits include discussion, independent looking, and participatory activities. Therefore we ask that you remind students to remain with the group at all times, unless otherwise instructed. There should be no shouting, calling out, or running in the galleries.

Preparing for Your School Discovery Visit

Personal Belongings Please have students leave lunches and all other personal belongings on the bus. In the winter months, coat racks are available for your convenience. Photography

Photography in the Museum is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the Executive Director three weeks in advance of your scheduled visit. Museum Shop

If you would like your students to browse the Museum Shop, we ask that you allow extra time after the conclusion of the program. Restrooms and Handicapped Accessibility

Restroom facilities at the Museum are located on the lower level and are only accessed by stairs. If a student requires handicapped bathroom facilities, these are located in the adjacent cottage building. Name Tags

Name tags for younger students are appreciated by Museum Educators.

Smoking

Smoking is prohibited in all areas of the Museum.

Museum Educators reserve the right to dismiss any group at anytime from the Museum if they feel the group presents a threat to the safety of works on exhibition.

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ON THE COVER: Jacob Lawrence, General Toussaint L’Ouverture (from the

Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1986, silk screen on rag paper, 28-3/8 x 18-

1/2 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

Curated by Peter Nesbett, editor of Jacob Lawrence, The Complete Prints (1963-2000),

The Catalogue Raisonné, and founding director of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, this exhibition features color prints created by Jacob Lawrence between 1983 and 2000. Since his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence has produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence has turned to the lessons of history and to his own experience. From depictions of civil rights confrontations to scenes of daily life, these images present a vision of a common struggle toward unity and equality, a universal struggle deeply seated in the depths of the human consciousness. The three series of prints in this exhibition: Genesis, Toussaint L’Ouverture, and Hiroshima, illustrate Lawrence’s approach to historical, religious, and highly emotional subject matter. Through his use of bold color and shape, he succeeds in making universal statements on the human condition, celebrating human triumph despite the odds, and making sense of the world through the visual arts.

August 19 – November 5, 2006

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An Introduction to the Exhibition:

Above: Jacob Lawrence, General Toussaint L’Ouverture (from the

Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1986, silk screen on rag paper, 28-3/8 x

18-1/2 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

JACOB LAWRENCE: Three Series of Prints

Born on September 17, 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence was an accomplished painter. He did not create his first print until he was 46 years old. He made many prints inspired by, or finding ideas from, paintings that he created earlier in his life. Lawrence’s artwork is often very personal, or is inspired by his own life experiences. As an African-American artist living in the United States during the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence had to overcome many obstacles in order to become a successful artist. Lawrence was the

first major artist of the century to be trained and taught in Harlem and the community became inspiration for his artwork. In 1941, Lawrence became the first African American artist whose artwork was included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, where he had a solo, or one-man, exhibition, in 1944. Jacob Lawrence received numerous awards and honors, including the National Medal of Arts (1990), the NAACP Annual Great Black Artists Award (1988), and the Spingarn Medal (1970). His work has been the subject of several major retrospectives that have traveled nationally, originating in 1986 at Seattle Art Museum, in 1974 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 1960 at the Brooklyn Museum. When Lawrence died in 2000 at the age of 82, he was one of the most celebrated artists in the United States.

Who is Jacob LAWRENCE?

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Jacob Lawrence (seated) with Master Printer, Lou Stovall, signing Toussaint L’Ouverture Series.

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SERIES – A group of artworks made by one artist that all share a

common subject, theme, or concept. Often made within the

same time frame and intended to be displayed as a group.

REPETITION – This term refers to a way of combining the elements

of art so that the same elements are used over and over

again. For example, a certain color or shape might be used

several times in the same picture.

PORTRAIT - A work of art of a person, group of people, or animal(s).

PRINTMAKING – An artistic technique in which the artist creates an

image on a plate using a variety of methods and then

transfers or “prints” the image on paper, often using a press.

Printmaking allows for the creation of multiple copies of the

same image.

SILKSCREENING – A printmaking technique based on stenciling. Ink

is brushed through a fine screen made of silk and masks are

used to produce the design.

NARRATIVE – A term used to describe art that provides a visual

representation of some kind of story, sometimes based on a

literary work.

HISTORY PAINTER – An artist who creates paintings with specific

historical subject matter.

PALETTE - (1) A tray or board on which colors of paint are mixed. (2)

The set of colors used by an artist in a work of art.

Vocabulary Words


Genesis series

About the Genesis series, Jacob Lawrence writes: “I was baptized in the Abyssinian Baptist Church [in Harlem] in about 1932. There I attended church, I attended Sunday school, and I remember the ministers giving very passionate sermons pertaining to the Creation. This was over fifty years ago, and you know, these things stay with you even though you don't realize what an impact these experiences are making on you at the time. As I was doing the series I think that this was in the back of my mind, hearing this minister talk about these things.”

Top Right: Jacob Lawrence, And God created All the Beasts of the Earth (from

the Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt paper, 19 5/8

x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

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Bottom Right: Jacob Lawrence, And God Brought Forth the Firmament and the

Water (from the Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt

paper, 19 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles,

CA.

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Jacob Lawrence, In the Beginning All was Void (from the Genesis series),

1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt paper, 19 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.

From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

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Jacob Lawrence, And God Created all the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of

the Seas (from the Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman

Print Matt paper, 19 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Ke-

bede, Los Angeles, CA.

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Jacob Lawrence, And God Created Man and Woman (from the Genesis

series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt paper, 19 5/8 x 14

3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

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Jacob Lawrence, The Creation Was Done and All Was Well (from the

Genesis series), 1989, silk screen print on Whatman Print Matt paper, 19

5/8 x 14 3/8 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

About the Toussaint L’Ouverture series from the Catalogue Raisonné: “These prints are based on forty-one paintings from a series also entitled Toussaint L'Ouverture, which was completed in 1938 and is now in the Aaron Douglas Collection of the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans. The paintings were executed in tempera and measure 11 x 19 inches, significantly smaller in scale than the prints. Lawrence reworked many of the images during the process of translating them to silk screen. When an image has been significantly altered from the original, that fact is noted in the catalogue entry. The captions Lawrence provided for the paintings at the time of their execution accompany each of the prints. Toussaint L'Ouverture was a leader in the Haitian revolution. Born a slave, he rose to become commander in chief of the revolutionary army. In 1800 he coordinated the effort to draw up Haiti's first democratic constitution. However, in 1802, before the Republic was firmly established, Toussaint was arrested by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops and sent to Paris, where he was imprisoned. He died in prison the

following year. In 1804 Haiti became the first black Western republic.”

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Toussaint L’Ouverture series

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Jacob Lawrence, General Toussaint L’Ouverture (from the Toussaint L’Ouverture

series), 1986, silk screen on rag paper, 28-3/8 x 18-1/2 in. From the collection

of Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

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Jacob Lawrence, Deception (from the Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1997, silk

screen on rag paper, 18-1/2 x 28-3/4 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede,

Los Angeles, CA.

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Jacob Lawrence, To Preserve Their Freedom (from the Toussaint L’Ouverture

series), 1988, silk screen on rag paper, 18-1/2 x 28-3/4 in. From the collection of

Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

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Jacob Lawrence, The Opener

( f rom the Toussa in t

L’Ouverture series), 1997,

silk screen on rag paper, 18-

3/4 x 28-3/4 in. From the

collection of Alitash Kebede,

Los Angeles, CA.

Jacob Lawrence, Strategy (from

the Toussaint L’Ouverture

series), 1994, silk screen on rag

paper, 18-1/2 x 28-5/8 in.

From the collection of Alitash

Kebede, Los Angeles, CA.

Jacob Lawrence, The March

( f rom the Toussa in t


silk screen on rag paper, 18

x 28 in. From the collection

of Alitash Kebede, Los

Angeles, CA.

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Jacob Lawrence, The

Capture (from the Toussaint


silk screen on rag paper, 28-

1/4 x 18-3/8 in. From the

collection of Alitash Kebede,

Los Angeles, CA.

Jacob Lawrence, Toussaint at Ennery

(from the Toussaint L’Ouverture series),

1989, silk screen on rag paper, 18-5/8 x

29 in. From the collection of Alitash


Jacob Lawrence, The Burning (from the

Toussaint L’Ouverture series), 1997,

silk screen on rag paper, 18-1/2 x 29

in. From the collection of Alitash


About the Hiroshima series Lawrence writes: “Several years ago I was invited by the Limited Editions Club of New York to illustrate a book of my choosing from a list of the club's many titles. I selected the book Hiroshima, written by the brilliant writer John Hersey. This work was selected because of its power, insight, scope, and sensitivity as well as for its overall content. My intent was to illustrate a series of events that were taking place at the moment of the dropping of the bomb... August 6, 1945. The challenge for me was to execute eight works: a marketplace, a playground, a street scene, a park, farmers, a family scene, a man with birds, and a boy with a kite. Not a particular country, not a particular city and not a particular people. "Is it not ironic that we have produced great scientists, great musicians, great orators, chess players, philosophers, poets and great teachers and, at the same time, we have developed the capability and the genius to create the means to devastate and to completely destroy our planet earth with all its life and beauty? How could we develop such creative minds and, at the same time develop such a destructive instrument? Only God knows the answer. Let us hope that some day at some time, He will give us the answer to this very perplexing question.”

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Hiroshima series

Jacob Lawrence, Family (from the Hiroshima series), 1983, silk screen

print on Somerset paper, 12-7/8 x 10 in. From the collection of Alitash


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Jacob Lawrence, Boy with Kite (from the Hiroshima

series), 1983, silk screen print on Somerset paper,

12-7/8 x 10 in. From the collection of Alitash


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Jacob Lawrence, Market (from the Hiroshima series),

1983, silk screen print on Somerset paper, 12-7/8 x

10 in. From the collection of Alitash Kebede, Los

Angeles, CA.

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Jacob Lawrence, Playground (from the Hiroshima

series), 1983, silk screen print on Somerset paper,

12-7/8 x 10 in. From the collection of Alitash Ke-

bede, Los Angeles, CA.

“MAKING” a Memory: Grades K-8

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Art Activities

Look carefully at images in Jacob Lawrence’s Genesis series.

Motivation: (Adjust as appropriate for grade level)

Jacob Lawrence found inspiration, or got his idea, for this series from a childhood memory. These works of art are narrative, meaning they tell a story. What story do they tell? Who are the characters, or people, in the story? Where are they? How do the clothing and details in the prints help to tell us the story? What is the mood, or how do these works of art make you feel? How do you think Jacob Lawrence felt about this memory? How did he use color to express these feelings?

ProcedureProcedureProcedureProcedure:

1. Have each student think of an important personal memory. And write about it (adjust length and depth according to grade and ability level).

2. Have students consider the following questions when writing about their memory: Who were the people involved? What happened? Where and when did it happen? How do they feel when they think about the memory? How were they feeling at the time?

3. Discuss how to translate these written stories into a visual image or images (upper grade students may elect to create a series based on their memory whereas younger students may create a single image).

4. Create the artwork(s) using the desired media (older students may choose to select a particular artwork to reinforce the mood or subject of their memory.

5. Have students share their artwork with their classmates. Ask classmates to figure out the memory and mood expressed. Can they relate to the memory? How does the artwork make them feel?


Look carefully at the prints in Jacob Lawrence’s series Toussaint L’Ouverture and Hiroshima.

Motivation:

What do you think Jacob Lawrence (or any artist who is creating a series based on a historical event or figure) did before he began these prints? How did he go about turning his research into visual imagery?

The two different stories that these narrative print series tell express very different moods, or feelings. What moods do they create? How did Lawrence use color, shape, line, composition, and repetition to create these moods and communicate their message?

Procedure:

1. Write names of various historical events and/or figures on papers and have students pick them at random. (You may elect to have students generate these ideas themselves, or, to further the lesson’s interdisciplinary value, use events and figures students are currently discussing in their history lessons.)

2. Discuss the importance of research when creating historically-based works of art. Devote several class meetings and/or homework time to researching the events and figures chosen.

3. Guide students in analyzing the gathered information in terms of their own artistic interests. Of course, not all of the information will be able to be incorporated into their series. What aspect of the person’s life or historical event would they like to emphasize or focus on and why? Encourage students to think creatively. What is their message and how will they communicate it through choice of subject matter and the elements and principles of art (use of color, shape, line, composition, etc.).

4. Have students carefully plan all aspects of their narrative series. What media will they use? How will this contribute to the desired message and/or mood? How many images will be appropriate to include in their series? Why?

5. Once the works of art are completed, have students present their series to their classmates and describe the message/narrative they hoped to communicate. According to their classmates, are the series effective in achieving/expressing this message? 23

“Writing” History SERIES: Grades 9-12

Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints Exhibition website Includes exhibition description, specific series-related text, and digital images. URL: http://www.a-r-t.com/lawrence/

Whitney Museum of American Art Interactive website for exhibition Jacob Lawrence: Telling Stories. Includes exhibition overview, images, artist biography, and lesson plan ideas. URL: http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/

Ohio University Past exhibition venue article describing Lawrence’s work. URL: http://www.ohiou.edu/infocus/genesis/

Artcyclopedia Links to Lawrence’s artworks in museum collections and articles on the artist’s life and work. URL: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/lawrence_jacob.html

www.pbs.org Describes Lawrence’s role as a “history painter,” creation of Toussaint L’Ouverture series, and a 1995 interview with the artist. URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/jan-june00/lawrence_6-13.html Artcyclopedia Links to Lawrence’s artworks in museum collections and articles on the artist’s life and work. URL: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/lawrence_jacob.html

Internet Resources

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Born in Hamburg, Germany on August 27, 1848, August Heckscher was to become one of the foremost capitalists and

philanthropists in the United States.

August Heckscher was to fulfill the “American dream” of financial success and personal accomplishment. Arriving in this country, he turned his attentions to industry and real estate, becoming a well-respected operator and general manager.

Toward the latter years of his life, August Heckscher began the most important chapter of his career. As a philanthropist, he focused on social issues and child welfare. Creating the Heckscher Children’s Foundation (now home of El Museo del Barrio), he sought to eradicate slum dwellings in New York City. Heckscher established playgrounds in lower Manhattan and purchased Heckscher State Park in East Islip, New York.

In 1918, he purchased the Prime Avenue property adjoining the Historic Old First Church in Huntington, New York. He created a park for children and adults to enjoy. In 1919, the Heckscher Museum of Art, a beautiful beaux-arts style fine arts building, was added to the property. Heckscher’s original collection of 185 paintings and sculptures, including art from the Renaissance, the Hudson River School, and early modernist American art, filled the Museum. When the Museum opened its doors in 1920, Heckscher dedicated the Museum and surrounding park to the people of Huntington, especially “to the little birds that migrate, and to the little children who fortunately do not.”

August Heckscher passed away on April 26, 1941 at the age of 92. The Long Islander described him in an obituary as “perhaps the finest benefactor that Huntington ever had.” Since his death, the Heckscher Museum of Art has continued to collect artwork in his legacy, with a permanent collection now featuring over 2,000 works.

Penrhyn Stanlaws, August Heckscher, oil on canvas, 47 ½ x 34 ¼ in., Heckscher Museum of Art, August Heckscher Collection.

Who is August Heckscher?

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All materials are available for loan by classroom and art teachers. A $25.00 refundable deposit is required for a two week rental.

Please call the Education Department at 631.351.3214 for availability.

Educator Resources

♦ William H. Johnson: A Retrospective from the National Museum of American Art

♦ Studio Museum in Harlem: Twenty-five Years of African American Art

♦ Dale Chihuly: Seaforms

♦ Visions of a Changing America: Depression Era Prints from the Collection of Herschel & Fern Cohen

♦ Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection from the National Museum of American Art

♦ Shaping a Generation: The Art and Artists of Betty Parsons

♦ Coney Island to Caumsett: The Photographic Journey of N. Jay Jaffee, 1947-1997

♦ Millennium Messages

♦ Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper

♦ Portraits by Carl Ven Vechten

♦ Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art

♦ Hans Namuth: Portraits

♦ Aaron Copland’s America

♦ Jane Wilson: Land | Sea | Sky

♦ Spirit of the Mask

♦ Light, Color, Spirit: Esteban Vicente

♦ Robert Henri and His Influence

♦ The Photography of Alfred Steiglitz: Georgia O’Keefe’s Enduring Legacy

♦ The Unexpected: Artists’ Ceramics of the 20th Century

♦ Treasures from El Museo del Barrio

♦ Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill

♦ Louise Nevelson: Selections from the Farnsworth Art Museum

♦ Genetic Expressions: Art After DNA

♦ Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

♦ The Golden Age of American Impressionism

♦ Red Grooms: Selections from the Graphic Work

♦ American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement

♦ A Century of Collecting

♦ Feast the Eye, Fool the Eye

♦ A New Narrative: Marden, Fitzpatrick, Stella, Warhol

Exhibition-related Educator Slide Packets

Art History Slides are available for the following exhibitions past & present:

**** Limited supply. Available on a first come, first serve basis.

Archived exhibition-related art posters are available free of charge. Exhibitions include the following: The Golden Age of American Impressionism; Aaron Copland’s America; Dale Chihuly: Seaforms; and others.

Free Posters****

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

1. Helen Frankenthaler 2. Lee Krasner 3. Esteban Vicente: Portrait of an Artist 4. Elaine de Kooning: A Portrait 5. Louise Nevelson in Process: Portrait of an

Artist, Sculptor/Installation

IMPRESSIONISM/

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

1. A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape 2. Monet in the Twentieth Century 3. In a Brilliant Light: Van Gogh in Arles

AFRICAN-AMERICAN

ARTISTS

1. The Life and Art of William H. Johnson: Harlem Renaissance Painter

2. Howardena Pindell: Atomizing Art

FAUVISM

1. Matisse: Portrait of an Artist

2. The Matisse I Knew

GLASSMAKING

1. A Touch of Glass: Steps in Glassmaking

2. Dale Chihuly-1998: American Glassmaker

3. Chihuly Installations– 1992 4. Chihuly: River of Glass

MISCELLANEOUS

1. John James Audubon: The Birds of America, Naturalist/ Painter 2. Illya Bolotowsky: Neo Plasticism Painter 3. Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait 4. Eads Bridge Mirror Show: Saint Louis in the Gilded Age 5. Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait, American Realist Painter 6. NC Wyeth: American Golden Age Illustrator 7. Papermaking: Video Workshop 8. B. Novak and B. O’Doherty on 19th Century American Painting 9. The Baseball Player from the Guilded

INSTALLATION

1. Judy Pfaff, Alan Jones and Kenneth Snelson

2. Louise Nevelson in Process: Portrait of an Artist

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SCULPTORS

1. George Segal: Raw 2. George Segal, William Scott, Sally Avery

and March Avery Cavanaugh 3. Nancy Graves 4. Frederick E. Hart: Past, Present and Future 5. Lee Krasner, Doug Hollis and Alan Sonfist 6. Eduardo Chillida: Portrait of an Artist,

Abstract 7. Anthony Caro and Henri Moore: Abstract 8. Carle Andre: Minimalist, Richard

Artschwager and Sonia Delauney 9. Tony Smith: Minimalist 10. Calder’s Circus: American Kinetic Artist

MINIMALISM

1. Robert Mangold 2. Frank Stella: Painter and

Sculptor

PHOTOGRAPHY

1. Edward J. Steichen 2. Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye 3. John Baldessari 4. Milton Rogovin

POP ART

1. Roy Lichtenstein: Painter & Sculptor

2. Jim Dine 3. Red Grooms:

Contemporary

Videos

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East Coast/West Coast & Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist

November 14, 2006 - January 28, 2007

An American Impressionist artist who truly captured the spirit of his surroundings, Colin Campbell Cooper’s (1858-1937) career is defined by his education on the east coast and later years on the west. This exhibition includes approximately 65 paintings celebrating color and light during both periods of Cooper’s artistic career.

Abstract, Figurative, & Historical: Picturing Long Island February 3, 2007 - March 25, 2007

This exhibition features artwork in a variety of media and techniques by local Long Island artists as well as works of art from our permanent collection.

Ansel Adams & Edwin Land: Art, Science, & Invention, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection

March 31, 2007 - June 25, 2007

This exhibition features 100 photographs by famed photographer Ansel Adams created as the product of a lifelong friendship and creative collaboration with Edwin Land, a scientist who pioneered the invention of instant film and cameras in the 1940s. Includes many one-of-a-kind Polaroid images and some of Adams’ most famous images.

Joy Weiner Director of Education & Public Programs

Kristina Seekamp Coordinator of School and Youth Programs

Lucy Taylor Coordinator of Docents & Adult Group Programs

Education Department Staff Call 631.351.3214

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