96-year old Fowler native featured in Heckscher Museum of Art in New York

Fowler Native, Connie Fox, recently completed a comprehensive art show as the featured artist at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York.

Her Sammy’s Beach Series is the first comprehensive presentation of this body of work to take place on Long Island. The exhibition brings together a dozen abstract paintings and a group of related drawings in charcoal, ink and acrylic on paper that Fox created in response to her experiences at Sammy’s Beach in Northwest Harbor, East Hampton, NY. Since moving to the area over four decades ago she frequented the beach to walk, sit and swim. Created between 2007 and 2014, the series is considered a remarkable achievement by an artist whose work spans over 70 years.

Connie Fox was born in Fowler, Colorado in 1925, the daughter of the late H.W. & Eva Fox and aunt to Jonathan Fox of Fowler. She graduated from the University of Colorado @ Boulder and the University of New Mexico, where she studied and later taught with well-known painter Elaine de Koonig. Fox is located in Long Island, NY where she continues to live and work.

A private virtual tour of the art exhibit was provided for Fox, family and friends as the featured artist. To celebrate Fox’s 96th birthday earlier this year, there was a virtual tour of Connie Fox’s Studio. She, along with authors and daughter, Megan Chaskey and son-in-law, Scott Chaskey provided a tour of the seven decades of her artwork interspersed with excerpts coordinated for the tour from Chaskey’s poetry and writings.

Fox’s works are included in many museum collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, NY and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA. She received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2013.

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