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Nell Choate Jones (1879–1981) – artist who had lived in Brooklyn [10] [11] Jones was awarded an honorary doctorate by the State University of New York in 1972 and received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1979. She exhibited regularly across North America in the 1940s and 1950s as well as overseas in France ...
The Brooklyn Museum changed its name to Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1997. [180] According to acting director Linda S. Ferber, the renaming was necessary because "there was more confusion about the museum's identity than we supposed"; for instance, many visitors still believed the museum had natural-history exhibits, which had not been the case ...
Sensation installed at Brooklyn Museum (October 1999 – January 2000). Sensation was an exhibition of the collection of contemporary art owned by Charles Saatchi, including many works by Young British Artists (YBAs), which first took place 18 September – 28 December 1997 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. [1]
In 2006, The Libraries of the Brooklyn Museum, The Frick, and The Museum of Modern Art joined forces to form the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC). In addition to other projects, they have collaborated to build an integrated library system, known as Arcade., [14] to provide better access to their respective collections.
Calla Lilly, c. 1875, Brooklyn Museum of Art Fidelia Bridges, May one of a series of twelve color print illustrations, 1876, collection of the Boston Public Library. Fidelia Bridges was born in Salem, Massachusetts, to Henry Gardiner Bridges (1789-1849), a sea captain, [2] and Eliza (Chadwick) Bridges. (1791-1850).
Works of art by Hewitt are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Brooklyn Museum in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA; and several museums in Maine. [12]
The society sponsored lectures, concerts, publications, and exhibitions of modern art, including the International Exhibition of Modern Art at the Brooklyn Museum in 1926. Between 1920 and 1940 they held 80 exhibitions showing mostly Cubist and abstract art. Their galleries in their "first modest headquarters" were at 19 East 47th Street.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of people who were either born or have lived in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City at some time in their lives. A Alan Arkin Aaliyah (1979–2001) – actress, dancer and singer Allison Abbate (born 1965) – film producer ...