The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages
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About this organization
Mission
The Long Island Museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of American art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of Long Island and its diverse communities.
About
Changing exhibitions from July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019. Perfect Harmony: The Musical Life and Art of William Sidney Mount from February 16, 2018, through September 3, 2018. William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) formed an organic and everlasting bridge between his two chief passions in life: art and music. Perfect Harmony re-explored the confluence of Mount's music and art through nearly 25 oil paintings, pencil drawings, and fascinating objects, such as a trompe l'oeil music stand that the artist carefully painted the sheet music of early American folk tunes on. While this subject has been thoughtfully examined in other LIM exhibitions over the years, such as Catching the Tune (1984) and The Power of Music (2002), it has been many years since LIM has had a focused reinterpretation of the subject. Mount came from a musically-oriented and gifted family. Undoubtedly, the artist was further influenced by the interracial music culture of both New York City and Long Island's North Shore in his formative years. By the 1820s, the soundscape of enslaved and free African Americans merged with and transformed the musical traditions of Scotch-Irish immigrants, creating a potently creative cocktail of new American music that stayed with Mount for life. Music takes center stage in a wide variety of the artist's most famous works. The paintings and especially his pencil drawings evince a meticulous concern with proper musical positioning and posturing. And beyond providing artistic muse, music gave Mount another serious outlet and passion that he pursued as a country fiddler, a fife player, a scribe and collector of folk songs, and the designer of a violin, which he called 'The Cradle of Harmony.' Revolution in Printmaking: Larry Rivers and the Rise of Universal Limited Arts Editions from May 11, 2018, through September 3, 2018. In 1957, at a small printmaking workshop based inside a cottage in West Islip, Long Island, artist Larry Rivers (1923-2002) and poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) began their famed lithographic project Stones, a groundbreaking but playfully approachable convergence of words and imagery. Stones was published two years later as a thirteen-page portfolio by Tatyana Grosman (1904-1982), a Russian immigrant, who was able to get Universal Limited Art Editions printing concern off the ground. This was ULAE's first of many solicited projects with artists in years to come and, for Rivers, an initial voyage into printmaking. As Rivers's worldwide prominence as an artist grew by the early 1960s, his connections and support within a world of up-and-coming artists also helped build ULAE into a highly-successful and influential operation. Revolution in Printmaking: Larry Rivers and Universal Limited Art Editions focused on the vital influence of Rivers and the growth and continued sustainability of ULAE, still based in Suffolk County, Long Island. Over the decades ULAE has worked with a wide range and style of young, ambitious, talented, and internationally-famed artists. The exhibition featured nearly 70 works of art paintings, lithographs, intaglios, monoprints from these artists and many more. Elias Pelletreau: Long Island Silversmith and Entrepreneur- from September 21, 2018, through December 30, 2018. Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810), an important Southampton silversmith and craftsman, created richly detailed, beautifully ornate, and shimmering eighteenth-century objects: teapots, pepper boxes, porringers, tankards and jewelry. Accompanied by a beautiful full-length catalog being published by Preservation Long Island, Elias Pelletreau featured nearly 170 artifacts; silver, paintings, and furniture illuminated the life and times of one of this region's most significant early American artisans. Pelletreau created a remarkable body of work that exemplifies the best of American artisanship. This project illuminated his impressive legacy of surviving objects and business records, offering a fresh perspective into the world of patronage, commerce, and industry in colonial and revolutionary-era Long Island and New York City. Pelletreau apprenticed in Manhattan and began his career there in the 1740s where he gained a nuanced sensibility of then-current fashions and techniques as well as patronage connections. He later returned to Southampton, spending the rest of his career as a rural craftsman, supporting the patriot cause, and maintaining his assets during a time of major cultural transition. Shaping Silver: Contemporary Metalsmithing from September 21, 2018, through December 30, 2018. Dazzling in appearance, versatile in applications, silver is one of the most prized metals on earth. It has been a constant presence in our lives dating back to antiquity. Silver's many possible uses include currency, jewelry, religious ceremony, eating and serving utensils, decorative arts, musical and medical instruments, photography, and electronics. Shaping Silver highlights a small group of exceptional contemporary artists in New York and Long Island working in silver. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, artists drew inspiration not only from silver's long global history in jewelry and decorative arts, but also the natural world, geometry, and architecture to create works that are both traditional and innovative. In some ways, these artists use techniques that have been essential to silver making for centuries: hammering, heating, cutting, and the continuous refinement of their work. In other ways, visitors saw the result of astonishing new skills, new influences, and new directions. Taken together, this collection gives visitors a chance to explore the breadth and fascinating range of possibilities that silver can take. Walt Whitman's Arcadia: Long Island through the Eyes of a Poet & Painters- from February 15, 2019, through September 2, 2019. Walt Whitman's writing reveled in a 19th century America that swept far past, in place and reference, the Long Island region that had once been his childhood home. Still, Whitman's prose and poetry often reveals the Long Island that he loved, a place of farmers, fishermen, and uniquely beautiful landscapes and seascapes. This exhibition, marked the great American bard's 200th birthday celebration, pairs Whitman's words with contemporary artist's painted depictions of Long Island. From 'the wild unrest and 'tossing waves' of Montauk Point to the 'isle of sweet brooks of drinking-waterhealthy air and soil,' Whitman often returned to 'fish-shaped Paumanok,' a region that also inspired growing numbers of artists throughout the 1800s. Walt Whitman's Acadia will present chosen passages from Whitman's writings alongside more than 20 paintings by William Sidney Mount, John F. Kensett, Lemuel Wiles, and more. Long Road to Freedom: Surviving Slavery on Long Island- from February 15, 2019, through May 27, 2019. In 1626 Dutch merchants brought the first group of enslaved Africans to New Amsterdam. When the English took control of the colony in 1664 they made New York a hub of the slave trade. Over the centuries, the institution of slavery impacted every community on Long Island. Imported as laborers by European colonists, these enslaved Africans and their descendants performed domestic, industrial, and agricultural work while fighting to maintain a complex cultural heritage. New York State formally abolished slavery in 1827 after significant opposition from enslaved and free African Americans and their white abolitionist allies. In the wake of the Civil War and civil rights movement, legacies of slavery endure on Long Island in how we think about race and relate to one another on institutional and individual levels even today. Face to Face: Artists Portraits of Other Artists- from June 14, 2019, through September 30, 2019. The exhibition Face to Face was a unique exploration of artists painting other artists. The exhibition began with nineteenth and early twentieth century artists, such as William Sidney Mount, Shepard Alonzo Mount, William Merritt Chase, Irving Wiles, and Fairfield Porter, but also featured approximately 60 works by more than 30 contemporary artists (many working at least part of the year on Long Island) who took turns sitting for studio portraits of one another. It turns out that artists themselves make ideal subjects. They understand the patience required in sitting for a portrait, and the importance of light, color, and texture filtered through brushes, canvas, paint, and the artist's eye. Artists also inspire each other. They often live or work together or near one another, regularly show their work and give feedback, and have formed distinct communities scattered throughout the region. This exhibition was the brainchild of artists Douglas Reina and Ty Stroudsburg, who have assisted in reaching out to the regional community of painters from our area.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
According to the filing documents, the non-profit's mission is defined as “The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.”.
When referring to its tasks, they were referred to as: “To preserve collections of 19th century long island and american art, history and horse-drawn transportation history and offer interpretation of these collections and related historical topics through public educational programs.”.
- The non-profit's state of operation has been legally reported as NY.
- According to the latest filing, the non-profit's address in 2020 is 1200 ROUTE 25A, STONY BROOK, NY, 11790.
- The total number of employees reported by the non-profit on their form for 2020 is 33.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$325,476.
- The organization has 12 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1942.
- The organization pays $1,470,052 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $503,555 in fundraising expenses.