Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum (11/30/2018)

Friday, November 30, 2018 (continued)
The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States, founded in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library.

Brooklyn Museum building (by McKim, Mead & White,
west wing 1895-1897, central pavilion 1899-1905, northeast wing
1904-1907, northeast gallery 1913-1926, extension 1977-1980
by Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen, auditorium 1991 by Arata Isozaki
and James Stewart Polshek & Partners, entrance and lobby 2004
by Polshek Partnership Architects)

We started on the fifth floor and worked our way down. I had a list of 10 things to see, but the list must have been from 2014-2015 as several items were from traveling exhibitions and no longer on display.

Colossal statue of Robert Fulton (1872, by Caspar Buberl)

Fulton holds a model of his boat, the Nassau, the first steam-powered
ferry to operate between Manhattan and Brooklyn;
the statue stood for decades near the Fulton Ferry Landing

Religion Enthroned (1900, by the J&R Lamb Studios)
was commissioned for the United States pavilion in
the 1900 Exposition Universelle Internationale in Paris

Dawn in the Woods in Springtime and Sunset
in Autumn Woods (1905, by Tiffany Studios)

Dawn in the Woods in Springtime detail

Sunset in Autumn Woods detail

View of the Beaux-Arts Court with its translucent floor

The Dinner Party (1974-1979, by Judy Chicago)
is an important example of feminist art

The art installation celebrates the achievements and lives of 1,038 historical and mythical women whose stories have often been lost to history and their contributions to Western culture have been forgotten. The Heritage Floor has the names of 999 women on hand-cast tiles, while 39 women are commemorated through an embroidered runner and a decorated plate with a butterfly or vulvar motif.

Sacajawea

Saint Bridget

Ishtar

Another view of some runners, and the Heritage Floor

The Resurrection of Christ (c 1520-1525, by Giovanni della Robbia)

Exhibit in a box; actually shaded to protect the delicate artifacts from light

Mummy of Thothirdes (c 768-545 BCE)

Senet Game Board and Playing Pieces (c 1539-1295 BCE) for the
deceased to play in the afterlife to work his way through zones
to the underworld; there is evidence that it was also played by the living

Woman in Gray (1942, by Pablo Picasso)
apparently evokes the violence and bleakness
of life during World War II

Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005, by Kehinde Wiley)

Spacelander Bicycle (designed 1946 by Benjamin J Bowden,
manufactured c 1960)

PUSH (2018, by Rob Wynne) is made from
poured and mirrored glass

Tile mosaic name of the subway station

Does she have enough keys?

From the Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum we took the #2 train to the Hoyt Street station, walked about two-three blocks to the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station to catch the G train back to Nassau Street.
Back at Maddy & Ryan's apartment, Fiona kept us entertained and active for much of the rest of the day!
The next day we headed to Rhode Island.
Next: New Bedford Art Museum.