Those costumes are being shown now because they show the basis from which this year’s fashions were designed, especially the hats which in many cases are identical with those now seen on the street every day. Warren Blossom and Miss Julie Blossom, all members of the Brooklyn Junior League, will be in costumes of the period of the exhibition drawn from the Museum’s costume collection and related to another exhibition that will be available for the first time that night, namely, women’s and children’s summer costumes for morning, afternoon and sports wear from 1830 to 1895. Wednesday evening, May 17th, at the Brooklyn Museum which will be socially important in Brooklyn and will have unusual material in the exhibition that will be opened of “Popular Art in America.”Ī Program Committee composed of Miss Alice Recknagel, Mrs. There will be an invitation preview 8:30 P.M. Records of the Department of Public Information. The examples of fractur drawings, samplers, mourning pictures, paintings on velvet and glass overlap into folk art or art that was practiced widely by people for their own enjoyment.īrooklyn Museum Archives. The field of oil painting is not included as it has been the subject of so many past and current exhibitions.Īmong the objects shown which fit most neatly the definition of “popular art” as given above and in contradistinction to “folk art” are the cigar store figures, the wood portraits of famous Americans, -the lawn sculpture of iron which came out like a rash In the gardens of prosperous citizens in the mid 19th century, the hitching posts, the weather vanes, the stoves, toys, penny banks, pottery, valentines, advertisements, and prints. The period most amply represented is the first half of the 19th century with a few objects from the late 18th century. The exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum is arranged to present characteristic examples as well as the best ones available from an aesthetic view point. “Advertisements, valentines, and many of the ceramics, exemplify this kind of popular art for, although they were made by relatively specialized and highly skilled craftsmen, their consumption was essentially popular.' In other words, it is unsophisticated art for the average man and woman. He defines popular art as one which, regardless of who produced it, whether skilled or unskilled craftsman, was intended to appeal to the great majority of people. Graham III, the assistant curator of the American Rooms, remarks that popular art, which overlaps and is closely related to folk art, has not been extensively shown. This collection, made up mostly of loans, will not be simply another folk art exhibition although it will necessarily have some objects in that category as they were examples of popular art. Catalogues and an ample supply of photographs will be on hand then. It can be seen by critics and reviewers beginning Monday, May 15th. The principal exhibition during the World’s Fair period at the Brooklyn Museum will be “Popular Art in America” (covering the late 18th and early 19th Centuries) which will open to the public May 18th after an invitation preview Wednesday night May 17. 1, (Second Floor Library Gall.)īrooklyn Museum Archives. Material from the Brooklyn Museum Art Reference Library - May 5 to Oct. Popular Art in America - May 18 through summer (First Fl.) to 10:30 P.M.Įxhibition of the Instruments of the Modern Symphony Orchestra and their Historic Antecedents - March 31 to May 14, (Second Floor)Įxhibition of Mexican Bead Work of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Frida- 1:05 P.M. from the Sculpture Court of the Brooklyn Museum) ORGAN RECITALS (Broadcast over Station W.N.Y.C. Sound Motion Picture - “The Symphony Orchestra, Percussion Group, Woodwind, Brass and String Choirs “ (Sculpture Court) Motion Picture - 'Bit of High Life Digging up the Past Canoe Trails through Mooseland” (Sculpture Court)ģ:00 P.M. Motion Picture - “The Frontier Woman” (Sculpt. Sound Motion Picture- “Pilgrim Forests” (New England) (Sculpture Court)ġ:30 P.M. Manhattan Federal Band (Sculpture Court)ġ0:00 A.M. Sound Motion Picture- “Pilgrim Forests, New England Fishermen” (Class A)ģ:10 P.M. Federal Civic Orchestra of N.Y.C., and Federal Opera Co. Presented in cooperation with the International Institute of the Y.W.C.A. Lecture-Demonstration- “History of Music and Its Parallels in Visual Art” by David Le Vita (Class A)ģ:00 P.M. Motion Picture- “China’s Home Life How China Makes a Living” (Sculpture Court)Ģ:00 P.M. SATURDAY, MAY 13th, through SATURDAY, MAY 20th,1939ġ1:00 A.M.

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