Brooklyn's Prospect Park contains a wealth of sculptures by eminent artists including Augustus Saint Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, Frederick MacMonnies, and even Thomas Eakins. This ten-minute video provides a short tour. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AUWoWWSLAs&w=425&h=344
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Correction to Missing Bronze Plates of Honor Roll Monument
I don’t have details about when or why the plaques were removed but I understand they are in storage with the Parks Department. So the plates of the monument are not missing. I am glad to know that they are still in good hand. For those of you who are keen to know the answer to the removal, please keep following this post. [Read more...]
War and Crime — Honor Roll Monument at Prospect Park
From museum planet website, I learned that Arthur D. Pickering was the architect and Henry Augustus Lukeman designed the statue with Daniel Chester French as his associate. The veil on the face of the angle of the dead looks almost semi-transparent. But she does not look frightful. With her head tilted toward the solider and her wings gently curved over, the sentimental statue conveys protection and sympathy. [Read More...]
Multi-tasking Rooms
Most of the early 18th-century period rooms in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, to my surprise, are displayed without evidence of human presence. This casts a striking contrast with the rooms of the later period such as Milligan's library with Nora's Ark. In the 18th Century American period rooms, furniture, mostly chairs, and tables, are … Continue reading Multi-tasking Rooms
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