The Heckscher Museum of Art is pleased to present Max Weber on Long Island which will be on view from April 28 through August 5, 2012. Max Weber, who lived on Long Island from 1920 until his death, was among the most influential American artists of the 20th century.
Max Weber, White Beach (House on the Beach), 1942. Estate of Max Weber, Courtesy Gerald Peters Gallery, New York.
Although celebrated today for introducing Cubism to America, Weber was better known during his lifetime (1881- 1961) for his Cézanne-inspired works of the 1920s and 1930s and his later lyrical expressionism. Max Weber on Long Island presents new scholarship on Weber through a selection of two dozen of the artist’s finest Long Island landscapes. Focusing on the land and its domestic and industrial structures at varying times of the year, these works reveal the range of modernist strategies for which Weber was so acclaimed.
Max Weber on Long Island was organized by The Hecksher Museum Curator, Lisa Chalif, and guest curated by Weber scholar Percy North, PhD. Max Weber on Long Island is sponsored in part by Advantage Title. A catalogue, made possible through support from Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, accompanies the exhibition.
Also opening on April 28 is the Long Island Biennial, a juried exhibition featuring work by artists of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The Museum’s Long Island Biennial collaborative partner, Cinema Arts Centre, will screen juried video and film entries in July.
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