Parrish Art Museum gets Water Mill home
Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant | Parrish Art Museum Director Terrie Sultan, left, and Deputy Director Anka Jacksonon pose for the camera in one of the galleries of the museum in Water Mil. (Oct. 22, 2012)
First, there was the light.
"William Merritt Chase came out here because of the light," says Terrie Sultan, director of the Parrish Art Museum. Next weekend, the Parrish opens Long Island's first new art museum in 40 years. And certainly the brightest and grandest.
"There's a clarity to the light in the Hamptons," adds deputy director Anke Jackson. The sun conspires with reflective water...