On View: Inlaid Red Pipe Bowl and Stem
THE JARVIS COLLECTION
The articles in this case and the adjacent clothing case [see 50.67.6] are some of the earliest and finest East...
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.
On View: Pierre de Wiessant, Monumental Nude (Pierre de Wissant, nu monumental)
In the wake of its humiliating defeat at the hands of Prussia in 1870, the French Third Republic sought to reinvigorate notions of heroism a...
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Candy Garments at Bendel's Holiday Windows
If you want to see a fun window display go over to the Henri Bendel at 721 Fifth Avenue at 56th Street. Their designers used our Fashion Sketch... read more.
Connecting Cultures Through Books!
The presence of three books in the new Connecting Cultures installation gives me a welcome opportunity to talk about these key works that... read more.
A Recent Donation from Camille and Luther Clark
The Brooklyn Museum Library collection has recently been enriched with the donation of several rare items of African American art given by Camille... read more.
Project CHART at the Brooklyn Museum
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been an important supporter of several initiatives to make the Brooklyn Museum’s collection... read more.
Help us pin Brooklyn to the map!
If you know and love Brooklyn we need your help to get 300+ images from our collection pinned to Historypin's map before their launch on July 11... read more.
If you want to see a fun window display go over to the Henri Bendel at 721 Fifth Avenue at 56th Street. Their designers used our Fashion Sketch collection as a source of inspiration for the creation of very delicious (I kid you not they are made out of candy) garments.
Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Henri Bendel 2012 Getty Images
The Bendel Fashion Sketch collection is one of many special collections held in our Libraries.
The presence of three books in the new Connecting Cultures installation gives me a welcome opportunity to talk about these key works that are in the Library collection. This is the first of a series of blogs that will discuss the books on view as well as other ways information has been culled from the Libraries and Archives to enhance this installation.
Art books have an advantage over other books since they offer many components that have an intrinsic quality. Hand colored images, good paper quality, innovative typography, overall design, types of binding—these are all elements that make art books a physical experience ranging from touching, holding, reading, smelling and of course understanding the message that the author intends. We are very fortunate to have many wonderful examples of the art book in the Museum Libraries and to have the opportunity to showcase some of these in exhibitions both held inside and outside the Museum walls.
Three great examples of the art book—ranging in dates from 1692 to 2011—are on view in Connecting Cultures and they each offer an opportunity for us to think about what the physical book offers in terms of textual and visual information (credible or not). Let’s start in 1692 with the Atlas nouveau : contenant toutes les parties du monde … (Paris: Chez Hubert Iaillot …,1692).
Atlas nouveau : contenant toutes les parties du monde ou sont exactement remarquès les empires, monarchies, royaumes, estats, republiques & peuples qui sy trouuent á present.
Known as the father of French cartography, Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667), was the patriarch of a famous mapmaking family who dominated map publishing in the seventeenth century. Hubert Jaillot, another most important French cartographer had a partnership with the Sanson family and re-published and re-engraved many of their maps. This rare atlas had been in the collection of the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library Association founded in 1823 and the first free and circulating library in Brooklyn. The Library was the nucleus of the Brooklyn Museum and this book is an excellent example of the original institutional vision as it documents a need to know about the world and the desire to share information. This book documents a view of the world in 1692 through French eyes and is a powerful example of how information has been created and circulated over time.
Sanson map is used as background imagery on one of the walls in Connecting Cultures.
In addition to being on view in a specially designed low light case, one of the maps has been reproduced on the gallery wall. This is one of many examples of how the Libraries and Archives add to the life of exhibitions here at the Brooklyn Museum!
The Brooklyn Museum Library collection has recently been enriched with the donation of several rare items of African American art given by Camille and Luther Clark. This donation is one of many in response to the Museum’s collecting initiative that began in 2010 to focus on collecting art by African American artists who worked between the mid-nineteenth century and pre-contemporary times. To parallel the growth of the art collection, the Museum Library has tried to increase its holdings on African American artists and this recent donation is an excellent addition to the research collection.
Fifty books, periodical articles and other primary documents have been received from this major donation and several items are now featured in the Library Display Cases at the entrance of the Museum Library. On display are rare books such as the catalog for the seminal exhibition entitled The Negro artist comes of age; a national survey of contemporary American artists which was held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1945. According to the Brooklyn Museum Bulletin (November 1945, No. 2), the exhibition consisted of fifty-three paintings and nine sculptures “by the leading young Negro artists of the United States. A few of these, such as Jacob Lawrence and Horace Pippin, have been widely shown but the work of the large majority is only now beginning to be recognized as an integral segment of our native art.”
The Camille and Luther Clark donation has greatly enhanced the Brooklyn Museum Library’s documentation on African American art and we are honored to have these important research materials here.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been an important supporter of several initiatives to make the Brooklyn Museum’s collection much more accessible to a wider audience. One good example of this initiative is the M-LEAD Project which has brought 30 students from Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science to the Museum to train as interns in the Libraries, Archives and Digital Lab. The M-LEAD Project was funded by the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program that supports projects to recruit students from diverse cultural backgrounds and to educate the next generation of librarians, archivists and digital managers. We was delighted to participate in this collaboration with Pratt Institute that allowed the Museum to be a training ground for their students.
We’ve now embarked on another project with Pratt Institute, also funded by IMLS, entitled CHART that is focused on digitizing historic photographs of Brooklyn. Project CHART (Cultural Heritage, Access, Research and Technology), is a cross-institutional collaboration between Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Public Library and us. At the end of this 3-year grant funded project, Project CHART will provide online access to historical documentary photographs of Brooklyn that were previously only available on-site at each institution.
Views: U.S., Brooklyn. Brooklyn, Packer Institute. View 007: Packer - view from the garden in winter. Lantern slide, 3.25 x 4 in. Brooklyn Museum, CHART_2011. (S10_21_US_Brooklyn_Brooklyn_Packer_Institute007.jpg)
You can follow along and see some of the images the Brooklyn Museum CHART interns have already scanned which are presented on the Museum’s website. We are uploading new images almost daily and eventually these images will be linked to others being digitized by the collaborating institutions.
We will be reporting on the progress of our CHART Project as it progresses. We hope that this project, already beneficial to the interns as a learning experience, will become a digital resource to the local, national and international research community and anyone else interested in the history and preservation of Brooklyn’s history.
If you know and love Brooklyn we need your help to get 300+ images from our collection pinned to Historypin’s map before their launch on July 11, 2011. If we don’t get cracking, Brooklyn is going to be woefully under-represented and that’s just not okay. Current Historypin totals have 1,358 images pinned to Manhattan with just 103 pinned to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, we can do better than that!
Historypin launches July 11 with our without Brooklyn. Let's rally BK pride to make sure the borough is well represented!
Historypin is a social sharing site meant to bridge the generation gap by encouraging its users to map historial images to modern day locations in order to show then and now comparisons and get people sharing more about history in the process. The site has been in beta for a year or so and we’ve been interested in participating, but we didn’t have enough hands around here to take some of our most interesting materials and get them onto the map because while they have been digitized, they’ve not been geotagged. That’s a major stumbling block and we need your help to get over this hump and ensure the borough of Brooklyn is well represented.
To get started we are going to begin a slow release of some amazing images of Brooklyn from the late 1800s to the Flickr Commons in the hopes that you can help us identify them and place them on a map.
In some cases, it will be very clear where these should be placed, but in others it will be a bit more of a mystery and require some sleuthing. Images that are geotagged by you will get placed on Historypin’s map for their launch on July 11 and we’ll be releasing more images every Tuesday and Thursday.
If you have a few minutes, help us out by mapping a few of these gems and you can continue to chart the project’s progress on our #mapBK leaderboard. Let’s represent!
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"Hello Chris,
Thanks for the wealth of information you've added to this image! Have you visited our #mapbk project on FLickr. We'd love it if you geotagged some of those images. Here's the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/sets/72157626844588977/.
Deb Wythe
Digital Lab"
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"This photo depicts the north side of Remsen Street looking west from Court Street. The building in the right foreground is the Garfield Building (1881, J. C. Cady). In the left foreground is the corner of the Dime Savings Bank (1883-84, Mercein Thomas). The Franklin Trust Company Building (1891, George L. Morse) can be seen in the distance above the row houses. The photo probably dates between 1891 (when the Franklin Trust Company Building was completed) and 1897 (when the Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building was erected immediately to the west of the Garfield Building)."
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