“Painters of the East End”

Believe or not, there was once a time when The Hamptons were affordable enough for artists to spend their summers mixing sun, fun and studio time along the South Fork shoreline. That was more than half a century ago, but this show revisits those lazy, hazy, crazy days with a look at a group of painters who left steamy downtown Manhattan for an East End idyll that inspired the landscapes, still lives and abstractions (by such noted figures as Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell) on view here