Brooklyn Bridge, 1948
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Brooklyn Museum 2009 United States
Georgia O’Keeffe (b. American, 1887-1986)
Oil on masonite
47 15/16 x 35 7/8 inches (121.8 x 91.1 cm.)
Bequest of Mary Childs Draper
American Identities
A New Look
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Thursday 01 January 2009 to Sunday 01 January 2012
This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics, and textiles) ranging in date from the colonial period to the present.
Long-Term Installation
Luce Center for American Art, 5th Floor
For the first time, major objects from these exceptional collections are joined by selections from the Museum’s important holdings of Native American and Spanish colonial art. The galleries are organized according to a set of eight innovative themes, through which visitors can explore historical moments and crucial ideas in American visual culture over the course of nearly three hundred years. Featured within these sections are American masterworks for which the Museum’s collections have long been known, by such artists and makers as John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Herter Brothers, Union Porcelain Works, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Edmondson, David Smith, Richard Diebenkorn, and Robert Colescott.
Visitors are invited to tour the galleries using an audio guide that offers a variety of voices and perspectives, or they may follow the comprehensive program of signage that provides detailed discussions of the gallery themes, individual object labels, and “Community Voices” labels written by members of the extended Brooklyn Museum community. Also included in the galleries are four video stations, one show
