The Heckscher Museum of Art is named after its benefactor, August Heckscher, who in 1920 donated 185 works of art to be housed in a new Beaux-Arts building located in Heckscher Park, in Huntington, New York. The museum has over 2000 works of art, focused on American landscape paintings and work by Long Island artists, as well as featuring American and European modernism, and photography. The most famous painting in the collection is George Grosz’s “Eclipse of the Sun” (1926). Founded by August Heckscher in 1920, the museum was based on his initial donation of 185 works of art. The building was designed by Julius Franke of the New York architecture firm of Maynicke & Franke. More information...
According to PR-model, heckscher.org is ranked 393,703rd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 249,993rd in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before administracionytransportes.cl and after rdg.today in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
