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The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 o
Entrance facade of Brooklyn Museum in 2022.
Rear of the museum building, expanded in the 1950s
Replica of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) in back lot
An exhibition hall in the museum
Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists. Before colonization, there were many flourishing traditions of Native American art, and wher
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, also known as The Athenaeum and The Unfinished Portrait, 1796, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is his most celebrated and famous work.
John White, Roanoke Indians, 1585, watercolor, British Museum
John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence (event 1776, painted 1819), United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C.
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, (original version), 1778, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.