AFA 22nd Anniversary

22nd Anniversary 94 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916), The Big Bayberry Bush (The Bayberry Bush), ca. 1895. Oil on canvas, 25½ x 33⅛ inches. The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; Littlejohn Collection. acre estate Laurelton Hall, brought many new young artists to Long Island for fellowships. Among the young artists who received Tiffany scholarships were Luigi Lucioni (1922), Paul Cadmus (1925), Ilya Bolotowsky (1929), and Giorgio Cavallon (1929). Artist friends of Tiffany, such as Jane Peterson and Charles Webster Hawthorne, also frequently visited and painted at Laurelton Hall. Meanwhile, a small number of modernists were gradually coming to explore and paint the western portions of Long Island—John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Helen Torr, and Max Weber all created works depicting the region from the 1920s through the early 1940s. Dove and Torr first came to Long Island in the early 1920s and explored the North Shore in their 42-foot houseboat Mona , mooring it in Huntington Harbor for nine years. Influenced by major art movements in Abstraction and Cubism, the couple were among the first artists to devote themselves not just to capturing the scenery but also to the mood of changing weather conditions and the dramatic waterlines amid Long Island’s harbors and bays. As the number and diversity of artists across the region continued to increase during the Great Depression, with WPA-funded projects and important events such as the 1939 New York World’s Fair, a significant new chapter was opened during the years just after World War II. A new generation of creative professionals who had trained at the Art Students League of New York and other leading New York academies started summering on Eastern Long Island. Soon, inevitably, some established permanent studios and homes there. Most famously, supported by a loan from Peggy Guggenheim, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner moved into their small wood-frame farmhouse on Fireplace Road, in Springs, in the Town of East Hampton. From this modest property, Pollock changed the face of Abstract Expressionism. After his early death in 1956, Krasner made her own significant contributions, working from the same studio