Brooklyn Museum

Scope and Contents

Posters created by Pratt Institute students, under the supervision of Mr. Ernest W. Watson, Mr. William L. Longyear, and Ms. Mary B. Hyde, and exhibited in "Designs and Poster Sketches Inspired by Natural History Specimens" [04/07/1926 - 04/28/1926]

Scope and Contents

Posters created by Pratt Institute students, under the supervision of Mr. Ernest W. Watson, Mr. William L. Longyear, and Ms. Mary B. Hyde, and exhibited in "Designs and Poster Sketches Inspired by Natural History Specimens" [04/07/1926 - 04/28/1926]

Scope and Contents

Posters created by Pratt Institute students, under the supervision of Mr. Ernest W. Watson, Mr. William L. Longyear, and Ms. Mary B. Hyde, and exhibited in "Designs and Poster Sketches Inspired by Natural History Specimens" [04/07/1926 - 04/28/1926]

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series is composed of publications produced by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, exhibition catalogs before 1897 or exhibitions not held at the Brooklyn Museum. Additionally, there is a small amount of ephemera about and produced by BIAS. Several of the publications are included in the general Brooklyn Libraries stacks as well. Constiutions and Bylaws of BIAS, BAL, and BI can all be found in their administrative files. Exhibition catalogs past 1897 can be found in...

Abstract The Community Gallery records document the administrative and exhibition activities of the gallery from its founding in 1968 until its closure in early 1986. In 1967 members of the artist group FICE demanded that the Brooklyn Museum exhibit from the local community and display artwork created by BIPOC artists. In repsonse, the Museum created the Community Gallery and hired Henri Ghent, the first Black man in a Director/administrative role at the Museum. Ghent, and later Richard Waller in the...