Visible Storage/Study Center

Visible Storage/Study Center

Opens At The Brooklyn Museum

Visible Storage/Study Center

Opens At The Brooklyn Museum

Visible Storage/Study Center

At BMA’s Luce Center

Thanks to the quality of its holdings, the Brooklyn Museum exhibits in the Visible Storage/Study Center works that many museums would exhibit in their main galleries. A prime example is Mary Cassatt’s “Woman in Red Bodice and her Child,” oil on canvas, circa 1901. 

 

Until recently, the Brooklyn Museum kept many works by Tiffany in the reserves. They are now divided between the galleries and the Visible Storage/Storage Center. —Adam Husted photo

 

This radio, 1930–1933, by Harold L. Van Doren and John Gordon Rideout was manufactured locally by the Air-King Products Company in Brooklyn.

 

Charles Sheeler’s oil on canvas “Incantation.”

 

Marsden Hartley’s oil on composition board “Handsome Drinks,” 1912.

 

Some of the museum’s holdings in colonial Spanish art were acquired on buying expeditions during the 1940s. —Adam Husted photo

 

Walter Dorwin Teague designed Sparton table radio, circa 1933, manufactured by Sparks-Withington Co.

 

The balance of the museum’s holdings in American silver are now on display in the Visible Storage/Study Center. —Adam Husted photo

 

“Children Rollerskating,” an oil on canvas by William Glackens, circa 1910.

 

Bessie Potter Vonno’s “Modern Madonna.”

 

From the selection of Native American pottery. —Adam Husted photo

 

“Portrait of Antoinette M. Krausharr,” an oil on canvas by George Benjamin Luks.

 

Some of the works in the Visible Storage/Study Center were acquired recently. This armchair, which dates from the mid-Eighteenth Century, was donated in 1997.

 

“The Flight into Egypt,” an oil on canvas from the Cuzco School, Peru, mid-Eighteenth Century.

 

For visitors who missed the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition on George Hunzinger seven years ago, there is this armchair, 1869, on display.

 

Noguchi, Saarinen, Eames and Gehry designs fill out a set of shelves stacked tall with Twentieth Century furniture designs.