ALBERT WILLIAM HECKMAN (1893-1971)Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, PA; he died in Woodstock, NY. He came to New York City in 1915 and throughout his career worked in New York and Woodstock. Beginning in 1917 he studied at the TeachersÕ College of Columbia University, receiving a BA in 1920 and MA in 1922.
After graduating he lectured at the TeachersÕ College until leaving to study in Germany, in 1928; he attended the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in 1929. In 1922 Heckman married Florence Hardman, a violinist with a successful career.
Heckman taught at Hunter College from 1930 to 1958. He made his first intaglio prints in Germany in 1928 and 1929. Back in this country, Heckman began making lithographs in 1933.
An early member of the Woodstock ArtistsÕ Association in the 1920s, Albert Heckman was a participant in the Associated American Artists, NY, NY, publishing program in the 1930s, and a printmaker on New York CityÕs New Deal T.R.A.P. program (Treasury Relief Art Project), in 1936. His work is in numerous permanent collections including the Library of Congress, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Public Library, and The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, NY.
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