New Evening Event!

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Nassau County Museum of Art

and Sid Jacobson JCC

Present

DECO SPIRITS

An Exclusive Museum Experience and Cocktail Tasting

Thursday, June 5 at 6 – 8 PM

Step back into the Deco Era with a private, docent-led tour of NCMA’s exhibition Deco at 100 – then enjoy an impromptu speakeasy on the East Terrace beside the magnificent museum mansion for handcrafted vodka drinks created by John Pawluk, founder/owner of Twisted Cow Distillery in East Northport, NY. In case of inclement weather, the tasting will take place in the Permanent Collection Gallery.

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Starts promptly at 6 pm!

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$125 – Members of SJJCC or NCMA

$140 – Non-members

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ON VIEW NOW

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The Nassau County Museum of Art’s Deco at 100 exhibition runs through June 15, 2025, and coincides with the 100th anniversary of the legendary 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, which launched the movement internationally. 

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Art Deco (1910 – 1950) is the crucial stylistic movement that bridges the Gilded Age and the contemporary era; it prompted a fresh look at prior styles, energizing them with a wider embrace of diverse human cultures.

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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 photographers and stylists of poster art and graphics will convey the Art Deco spirit along with its fashion, decorative arts, furniture, and architecture.

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Long Island’s Gold Coast social scene and its personalities – both upstairs and downstairs – will be portrayed. Deco at 100 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 dramatic economic reversals, which all defined the era.

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Deco at 100 is curated by Franklin Hill Perrell, NCMA’s Chief Curator, and co-curated by Alex C. Maccaro.

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Deco at 100 is made possible by a generous grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation of New York.

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F. Edwin Church (1876-1975), Girl in Yellow, ca. 1920, Loan made possible by the F. Edwin Church (1876-1975) Catalogue Raisonné Project

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Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Nightview, New York, 1932, © The Estate of Berenice Abbott, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery

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On View Through November 9

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Louis Comfort Tiffany transformed the decorative arts during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Combining refined craftsmanship with a love for color, he was renowned for his ability to “paint” with glass. He revolutionized the production of stained glass, incorporating it into innovative designs and bolstering an industry that had barely changed since the Middle Ages.

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The son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of the jewelry and silver company Tiffany & Co., L.C. Tiffany’s prolific body of watercolor and oil paintings is also noteworthy, as he trained and began his career as a painter. Through his family’s financial fortune, Tiffany journeyed widely throughout North America, Europe, and North Africa in his early career, painting such foreign locales as Egypt, Italy, and France. 

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This exhibition highlights the Nassau County Museum of Art’s newly acquired artworks by Tiffany and his workshop, which enhance the substantial assortment of his paintings and glassworks in the Museum’s collection, one of the largest such holdings in the world.

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Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), As Good as New, Swiss Scene (study), ca. 1875, Nassau County Museum of Art Permanent Collection; Museum Purchase.

Exhibition Hours

Tuesday-Sunday, 11 am – 4:45 pm

Docent Tours Daily at 2 pm

Mansion Tours, Saturdays at 1 pm

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