The Heckscher Museum of Art has loaned three works to the Nassau County Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, Deco at 100, on view through June 15.
According to Nassau County, the Deco at 100 exhibition coincides with the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Exposition internationale des art decoratifs et industriels modernes). That historical exhibition publicly launched the Art Deco movement. Loaned from The Heckscher Museum are works by Warren Wheelock, William Zorach, and Robert Winthrop Chanler.
“The exhibition will link the period’s signature innovation in the decorative arts, Art Deco, to the fine arts,”
noted the museum. “It encompasses significant cultural advancements during Long island’s Roaring Twenties/Jazz Age movement, including votes, jobs, and the automobile for women, the beginnings of suburbia with commutation for work, and planned residential communities, which defined the era, while the following decade brought economic reversals and the WPA program.”
The Nassau County Museum noted that concentrations of works by such artists as Louis Comfort Tiffany, Fernand Léger, Guy Pène du Bois, Gaston Lachaise, Elie Nadelman, and Reginald Marsh along with art deco stylists of poster art and graphics, and photography will convey the Art Deco spirit along with its furniture, decorative arts, and fashion. Like its previous exhibition Our Gilded Age, the social scene of Long Island’s Gold Coast, and its personalities – both upstairs and downstairs – will be portrayed, along with the ongoing relationship with the immediate urban context of New York with its skyscrapers and deco-styled architecture.
