AFA 22nd Anniversary

2022 Antiques & Fine Art 99 space. Many other significant modernist artists followed this road out to the East End: Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko, Perle Fine, Grace Hartigan, Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Fairfield Porter, Jane Wilson, Jane Freilicher, among them. The flourishing Hamptons arts scene that was engendered by this group still lives on. Other postwar developments contributed to Long Island’s central importance to the arts world. From a small Victorian cottage on Skidmore Place in Bay Shore, in 1955, Russian immigrant Tatyana Grosman, with her husband, the painter and sculptor Maurice Grosman, launched Universal Limited Art Editions. This enormously influential printer’s studio and creative shop expanded in reputation through the work of Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Marisol, Helen Frankenthaler, and others. Also during the postwar years, other arts groups rose to flourish on Fire Island, Hampton Bays, and the Huntington areas. All of these associations are integral to the great patchwork quilt of Long Island’s rich artistic heritage that continues to inform and nourish the present. A Checklist of Long Island Artists of the Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries will provide an important contribution to the understanding and appreciation of this region’s outstanding arts communities. It includes a Foreword by LIM’s executive director, Neil Watson, an Introduction by Long Island art collector and patron D. Frederick Baker, and an essay that provides context of the Long Island artist communities, as well as providing a profile of the LIM’s art collection, by the author of this article, accompanied by a selection of twenty-five color images chosen to represent LIM’s collection. The publication will be available at the museum gift shop and website, www.longislandmuseum.org. Joshua Ruff is a deputy director at The Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, Stony Brook, NY . Thomas Moran (1837–1926), Stormy Skies, Long Island, 1885. Oil on canvas. 12⅛ x 28¼ inches. The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Museum Purchase: Town of Huntington Art Acquisition Fund. Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), Number 25, 1950. Encaustic on canvas, 9⅞ × 37⅞ inches. Courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation. © 2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.