Brooklyn Museum

Eastern Parkway, 200, Brooklyn, New York

The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. Its roots extend back to 1823 and the founding of the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library to educate young tradesmen (Walt Whitman would later become one of its librarians). First established in Brooklyn Heights, the Library moved into rooms in the Brooklyn Lyceum building on Washington Street in 1841. Two years later, the Lyceum and the Library combined to form the Brooklyn Institute, offering important early exhibitions of painting and sculpture in addition to
lectures on subjects as diverse as geology and abolitionism. The Institute announced plans to establish a permanent gallery of fine arts in 1846.

By 1890, Institute leaders had determined to build a grand new structure devoted jointly to the fine arts and the natural sciences; the reorganized Institute was then renamed the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the forebear of the Brooklyn Museum. The original design of the new museum building, from 1893, by the architects McKim, Mead & White was meant to house myriad educational and research activities in addition to the growing collections. The ambitious building plan, had it been fully realized, would have produced the largest single museum structure in the world. Indeed, so broad was the institution’s overall mandate that the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum would remain divisions of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences until they became independent entities in the 1970s.

Source: brooklynmuseum.org

John Singer Sargent. Simplon. A female figure in a landscape
Simplon. A female figure in a landscape
1909, 36.7×53.8 cm
Albert Birštadt. Mount Baker, Washington, view from Fraser river
Mount Baker, Washington, view from Fraser river
1890, 36.2×49.8 cm
€50.00
Digital copy
William Blake. Illustrations of the Bible. Great red dragon and the woman clothed in the sun
Illustrations of the Bible. Great red dragon and the woman clothed in the sun
1805, 43.7×34.8 cm
€50.00
Digital copy
John Singer Sargent. Vila Medici
Vila Medici
1907, 53.8×36.5 cm
Francisco Goya. "You're that unbearable"
"You're that unbearable"
1798, 21.7×15.2 cm
John Singer Sargent. White ships
White ships
1908, 344.5×485.8 cm
John Singer Sargent. The Bedouins
The Bedouins
1905, 45.7×30.5 cm
John Singer Sargent. Out-of-doors art Studio
Out-of-doors art Studio
1889, 65.9×80.7 cm
Henri Matisse. Nude in the woods
Nude in the woods
1906, 40.6×32.3 cm
Claude Monet. The Palazzo Ducale. The Doge's Palace
The Palazzo Ducale. The Doge's Palace
81×100 cm
Edgar Degas. Mary Cassatt at the Louvre
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre
1880, 30.3×13.7 cm
John Singer Sargent. Sweet idleness
Sweet idleness
1907, 41.9×71.1 cm
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