Nassau County Museum of Art
| Established | 1969 |
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| Location | Roslyn Harbor, NY, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°48′35″N 73°38′34″W / 40.80965°N 73.64286°W |
| Type | Art |
| Visitors | 200,000 |
| Director | Karl E. Willers, Ph.D. |
| Website | Nassau County Museum of Art |
The Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) is located 20 miles east of New York City on the former Frick Estate, a 145-acre (59 ha) property in Roslyn Harbor in the heart of Long Island’s Gold Coast. The main museum building, named in honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold A. Saltzman and his wife Joan, is a three-story Georgian-style mansion that exemplifies Gold Coast architecture of the late 19th century. In addition to the mansion, NCMA, which receives nearly 200,000 visitors each year, includes the Sculpture Park, the Formal Garden, rare specimen trees and marked walking trails.
NCMA annually presents major rotating exhibitions, many of which are original to the museum and are organized by the museum’s own curatorial staff. The museum's exhibitions have reached across a broad spectrum of artistic concerns—from European and American art movements, to epochs of American and European history, to the influences of one art form or another and to the impact of Long Island artists on art and design. In addition to these major exhibitions, NCMA mounts smaller original exhibitions in the Library Gallery and the Second Floor galleries and regularly showcases work by today’s artists in the Contemporary Gallery.
NCMA’s collection of more than 600 art objects spans American and European art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Encompassing all types of media, the collection includes works by Auguste Rodin, Georges Braque, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg, Chaim Gross, Moses Soyer, Audrey Flack, Frank Stella, George Segal and Alex Katz among many others. Particularly notable are the museum’s holdings of works by Latin American artists of the 20th- and 21st-centuries. Among those represented in this collection are Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Fernando Botero, Alejandro Colunga, Luiz Cruz Azeceta, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell and Efrain Almeida.
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