HUNTINGTON, N.Y. - "Social Commentary: The Art of George Grosz and Larry Fink" will be on view at the Heckscher Museum of Art February 6-April 8.
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. â âSocial Commentary: The Art of George Grosz and Larry Finkâ will be on view at the Heckscher Museum of Art February 6âApril 8.
The installation of works by the German Dada artist and onetime Huntington resident George Grosz coincides with The Metropolitan Museumâs exhibition, âPortraits from the Weimar Republic,â to which the museum has lent its world-famous painting, the âEclipse of the Sun,â 1926.
Also on view in the museum will be approximately 40 Larry Fink photographs from his âSocial Gracesâ series. Fink, a renowned photographer, has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art and has also won two Guggenheim Fellowships.
Published as a book in 1984, Social Graces was the photographerâs first famed monograph. It features images of both upper and lower class society. Fink lived on Long Island for some of his teenage years. One of his greatest sources of inspiration was George Grosz. One sees satirical elements in the work of both artists, which is why they will be paired in this exhibition.
The museum is at 2 Prime Avenue. For more information, www.heckscher.org or 631-351-3250.
