Parrish Art Museum

Parrish Art Museum

Location within New York
Established	1898; 126 years ago (1898)
Location	279 Montauk Highway Water Mill, NY
Coordinates	40°54′16″N 72°21′58″W / 40.904334°N 72.366064°W / 40.904334; -72.366064
Visitors	30,000/yearly (old Jobs Lane location)[1]
Director	Monica Ramirez-Montagut
Website	parrishart.org

The Parrish Art Museum is an art museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron Architects and located in Water Mill, New York, whereto it moved in 2012 from Southampton Village. The museum focuses extensively on work by artists from the artist colony of the South Shore (Long Island) and North Shore (Long Island).

The Parrish Art Museum was founded in 1898. It has grown into a major art museum with a permanent collection of more than 3,500 works of art from the nineteenth century to the present, including works by such contemporary painters and sculptors such as John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Donald Sultan, Elizabeth Peyton, as well as by masters Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. The Parrish houses among the world's most important collections of works by the preeminent American Impressionist William Merritt Chase and by the groundbreaking post-war American realist painter Fairfield Porter.