Guide
8 Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios to Visit on Long Island
Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran may have been some of the first artists to make their way to Long Island, New York (see our Spring 2023 story in Preservation magazine), but they weren’t the last. Within a 15-minute drive of their East Hampton house, you can visit six other members and affiliate members of the National Trust’s Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS) program, and another HAHS site lies in Centerport on the North Shore.
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Photo By: Don Freeman
Thomas & Mary Nimmo Moran Studio, East Hampton, New York
Landscape painter Thomas Moran often worked in the quirky house he built circa 1884, and he and wife, etcher Mary Nimmo Moran, also lived there seasonally with their three children.
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Photo By: D'Amico Institute of Art
Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, Amagansett, New York
The Mabel and Victor D’Amico Studio and Archive, home to an influential pair of educators and artists, complements The Art Barge, a former U.S. Navy vessel they transformed into an art school.
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Photo By: Jeff Heatley/Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked on this property, now owned by the Stony Brook Foundation. Traces of their Abstract Expressionist paintings remain on the barn’s floor and walls.
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Photo By: Mick Hales
The Madoo Conservancy, Sagaponack, New York
Madoo, the private world of Expressionist landscape painter and gardener Robert Dash, combines impressive gardens with historic structures, including a 1740 barn.
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Photo By: Maya Argov/The Heckscher Museum of Art
Dove/Torr Cottage, Centerport, New York
Now owned by the Heckscher Museum of Art, this one-room North Shore cottage served as the home of Modernist painters Arthur Dove and Helen Torr.
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Photo By: Jess Frost
Arts Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton (affiliate)
This community arts hub includes a historic barn used by Abstract Expressionist John Little as a studio during the 1950s.
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Photo By: Barbara Lynne Photography
Elaine de Kooning House, East Hampton (affiliate)
The property where Elaine de Kooning lived and painted in her later years hosts exhibitions, events, and artist residencies, and is open for tours by appointment.
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Photo By: LongHouse Reserve
LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton (affiliate)
The sculpture garden at the home of the late textile designer and collector Jack Lenor Larsen contains works by Buckminster Fuller, Willem de Kooning, and Yoko Ono, among others.