Hear It! See It! Draw It!

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FOR THE FAMILY

July 31, August 7 & 14, 10-11 a.m.

Hear It! See It! Draw It!

A morning program that invites young children ages 3-5 and their caregivers into the galleries to listen to stories, explore works of art and create drawings inspired by what they see and hear. A different story is read each week! Limited to 20 children and their adult companions. Free with Museum admission but registration required. Write to , indicate how many in your group and desired date.

Exhibitons through November 8, 2015

In a sweeping showcase of modern art, Nassau County Museum of Art presents two exhibitions, Selections from the Saltzman Family Collection and Long Island Collects Modern Art. The exhibitions open on July 25 and remain on view through November 8, 2015. The previous advance announcement of the showing of the Saltzman Family Collection is replaced by these two exhibitions that together fall under the title THE MODERNS: Chagall, Degas, Léger, Miró, Picasso and more….

THE MODERNS:  Selections from the Saltzman Family Collection continues celebrations of the Museum’s 25^th anniversary year with an exhibition of early 20th-century modern art. The exhibition honors the Museum’s Founding President, the late Ambassador Arnold A. Saltzman, who during his life formed one of America’s great private collections of early modernist painting and sculpture. The exhibition includes works by well-known modernists such as Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Constantin Brancusi, Edgar Degas, Robert Delaunay, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger and many others.

THE MODERNS:  Long Island Collects Modern Art, organized by guest curator Franklin Hill Perrell, draws together choice examples of 20th-century art from significant Long Island collections. This special presentation embraces a wide range of treasures by pioneering artists of the modernist era, among them Matisse, Monet, Renoir, Dali, Léger, Chagall, Miró, Toulouse-Lautrec and others.

SECOND FLOOR GALLERIES

July 25-November 8, 2015
Posters of the Russian Revolution: 1917-1921

In the stormy period that began with the 1917 October Revolution, poster art became a principal means of communicating the ideals of Communism to the largely illiterate peasantry of Russia. Graphic, inexpensively produced posters carried the Revolution’s message and served to capture the minds and souls of the masses. These vibrant posters, depicting the new collective means of production in mines, fields and factories, were designed and executed by some of the foremost Russian artists of the time. Offered in conjunction with The Saltzman Family Collection, this exhibition is comprised of a collection of Russian revolutionary posters that was gifted to Nassau County Museum of Art by the Arnold A. Saltzman Family Foundation.

CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

July 25 – November 8, 2015
Frank Olt: New Works

Frank Olt’s colorful and dynamic installation of small-scale work will occupy the Museum’s Contemporary Gallery in a solo exhibition. A product of New York’s minimalist tradition, Olt was an artist in residence at NYC’s famed P.S. 1 gallery. His abstractions, a unique hybrid of ceramics and painting, have been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions. A Long Islander, Olt maintains studios in Oyster Bay and Manhattan.

Ongoing

FILM

July 25 – November 8, 2015
30-minute documentary, 2011
Tuesday-Saturday:* Screenings at 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m.
Sunday:* 11 a.m. & 12 p.m. *with exceptions for special programs
Edgar Degas of Dandies, Ballerinas, and Woman Ironing
This documentary follows the trail of the painter Edgar Degas through nocturnal Paris at the turn of the century, in the Paris Opera and the concert cafes. Edgar Degas, the son of an Italian banker, had stopped studying law to become a painter. Degas was a brilliant portraitist, but even more than this he loved to paint the dynamics of movement in horse races, to sketch the milliners on the boulevards, to depict with his paintbrush or pastel crayons the young women who worked as laundresses and water-carriers. Similar to but unique within the Impressionist art movement he helped to start, his art captured the fleeting moments of movement and light in the flow of modern life.

Sculpture Park 
Approximately 40 works, many of them monumental in size, by renowned artists including Fernando Botero, Tom Otterness, George Rickey and Mark DiSuvero among others, are situated to interact with nature on the museum’s magnificent 145-acre property.

Walking Trails

The museum’s 145 acres include many marked nature trails through the woods, perfect for family hikes or independent exploration.

Gardens

From restored formal gardens of historic importance to quiet little nooks for dreaming away an afternoon, the museum’s 145 acre property features many lush examples of horticultural arts. Come view our expanded gardens and beautiful new path to the museum.

The Museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Docent-led tours of the exhibitions are offered at 2 p.m. each day; tours of the mansion are offered each Saturday at 1 p.m.; meet in the lobby, no reservations needed. Tours are free with museum admission. Family tours and art activities are offered Sundays from 1 pm; free with museum admission.

Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students with ID and children aged 4 to 12.

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Event categories: Exhibitions and Family.Event tags: Art, Exhibit, Family/Kids, Gallery, Museum, Nassau, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Tour, and Workshop.