The Heckscher Museum of Art is pleased to present Rhythm & Repetition in 20th-Century Art.  This exhibition, on view May 3 through August 10, 2014, focuses on artists who use repeated shapes depicting natural, man-made, or abstract forms as a method to organize their compositions.

Drawn entirely from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, Rhythm & Repetition features work by Berenice Abbott, Richard Anuskiewicz, Oscar Bluemner, Arthur Dove, Childe Hassam, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Richenburg, Emilio Sanchez, and Stowasser (Hundertwasser), among others.  Long Island artists Sue Contessa, Gerson Leiber,  James C. Norman, and Helen Torr, as well as photography by Ray Germann, N.Jay Jaffee, Stuart McCallum, Neil Scholl, and Stanley Twardowicz will also be included. 

Also opening on May 3 is Exposed: Eadweard Muybridge and the Study of Motion.  This exhibition, on view through August 3, 2014, features 23 iconic Muybridge studies of horses and zoo animals, men engaged in various athletic pursuits, and women in domestic activities.