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    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Portrait of Madame Léon Maître (Portrait de Madame Léon Maître)

Fantin-Latour imbues his subject—the sister-in-law of a close friend—and her setting with an air of mystery. The painter distanc...

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: The Appian Way

    Images of places can also represent time. For nineteenth-century Americans, who understood the American landscape to be unmarked by traces o...

     

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    Grave Marker (Tumba)The Peaceable KingdomHeaddress FrontletBowl with Kufic InscriptionCherry Blossom Viewing PicnicWomanArmchairCartonnage of NespanetjerenperePortrait of a ManSt. Goedele, Brussels, BelgiumCharles, Vasa, MinnesotaTurning Woman with Handful of Sparks

    The Museum's collections were initially developed, in the early decades of the twentieth century, by such outstanding curators as Stewart Culin, Herbert Spinden, and William Henry Goodyear, with the generous support of collectors and donors from Brooklyn and around the country. Continuing to build upon their pioneering work, the Brooklyn Museum has amassed one of the largest and most diverse collections in the United States. Its vast holdings range from the ancient to the contemporary and encompass virtually all the world's principal cultures, reflecting the institution's long history of acquiring Western and non-Western art.

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    Please note that for a variety of reasons, including conservation concerns and the lending of works to other institutions, not all the objects illustrated here are on view at any one time in the Museum's galleries. Specific location information can be found on each object's record.

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