EXHIBITIONS

An exhibition of paintings, drawings and lithographs by the late George Grosz will be shown November 7 through December 6 by the Huntington Township Art League and the Heckscher Museum, Huntington. The collection has been loaned by residents of Long Island as a tribute to the artist, who had lived 25 years in Bayside, Douglaston and Huntington before returning to his native Berlin. He died there July 6 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 65. On May 20, just before he left the United States, he received the Gold Medal for Graphic Arts, an award made every five years by the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

The Heckscher exhibition, entitled George Grosz on Long Island, includes some of his historically important satirical work done in Germany during and following World War 1, as well as paintings depicting the self-destructive side of humanity on the rampage in the second World War, and some less well known, more positive and sympathetic paintings of the human victims of both wars. Included also are nature studies, landscapes and nudes, done on Long Island and during peaceful summers spent on Cape Cod, Nearly 90 works are being shown.

One World War II series, which the artist nicknamed “The Stickmen”, com­ments symbolically on mankind’s blind surrender of dignity and individuality. In the-se, mud-colored, glassy-eyed figures wearing collars instead of clothes, walk through empty landscapes attacking anything that represents freedom and life.