Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA)
One Museum Dr,
Roslyn, NY 11576
The Nassau museum is on poet William Cullen Bryant‘s land, part of Cedarmere. In 1890s, this portion was sold to congressman Lloyd Bryce, who then hired Ogden Codman, Jr. to build him a home, in the style of Georgian Revival. Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) purchased it in 1919 for his son Childs, who lived there for nearly half a century with his wife and children. Nassau County purchased this after Childs’ death (1883-1965) in 1966 and turned it into a museum.
When we visited it with kids, it was called Fine Arts Museum of Long Island (1978-2003). There are many sculptures dotting the landscape (Sculpture Garden, map). In addition, this holiday season the museum added A Bug’s Night. The museum at the Mansion is exhibiting works of Matisse, Degas, Juan Gris, Vuillard and Bearden.
Wood Duck (1979) by Allen Bertoldi (painted steel, measures 15’x15’x1′)
More sculptures
One Oklock, (1968-9) by Mark di Suvero (seen at Storm King), in painted steel; ?? ; and Equal Elevations – Plumb Run (1983) by Richard Serra (Cot-ten steel and there are two more).
The Diver (1993) by Nancy Leeds; and Three Graces (ca. 1913) by Charles Cary Rumsey
Girl on a Bicycle, (1965) by Bruno Lucchesi; Regina I (2006) by Manolo Valdes, and Shaul (1986) by Boaz Vaadia (bluestone). Petaloid-Negative (1968) by Adolph Gottlieb, on extended loan from the Met.
Silla (2001; chair, house for doves) by Alejandro Colunga; on extended loan from a private collection.
H.M. the King (1987) by Xaivier Corner; on extended loan from the Met (gift of the Generalitat de Catalunya) … either Met Museum has too many items or they don’t care for this one? ha ha ha… and Redbank 31 (1978) by Allen Bertoldi
Early Form (1998) by Tony Cragg at the Mansion
Two pieces from Reuben Nakian (1897–1986): Hiroshima (1965) by on extended loan from the Museum of Modern Art MoMA, and Garden of the Gods I (1979-80) in (bronze)
Both pieces by Chaim Gross: The Hanneford Family Acrobats (1964), on extended loan from The Chaim Gross Studio Museum, and Caring (1987)
Nagare Bachi (1990) by Masayuki Nagare (流 政之, 1923-2018); Europa Hybrid (1977) by Richard Hunt;
Man on Horseback (1984) by Fernando Botero, on extended loan from the Met; and Free Money (2001) by Tom Otterness
… the Milliken-Bevin Trellis (1931), and a few more photos and trials …
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