PRINTS OF THE MUSEUM OF BROOKLYN ART AND CULTURE
The Museum of Brooklyn Art and Culture is featuring a number of prints taken from its permanent collection of paintings, etchings and magazine illustrations. Enjoy the show!

If you wish, you may purchase the approximately 8.5x11" prints, which come with a wood frame and glass front.  Each framed print is $15.00 plus $6 shipping and handling, $2.00 shipping and handling per each additional framed print. Exact size of frames may vary slightly.


Unframed prints are 8.00 each, $2.00 shipping (no extra handling charge for additional unframed prints only). Each item is printed on heavy cotton paper. Mail check or money order made out to "SCPC", with title of each item and quantity to: Museum at Hebron, 23 Tiplady Road, Salem, NY 12865, Tel. 518 854-7867; email: pduveen@yahoo.com. (SCPC is the acronym for the Siberian Coffee Pipeline Co,, which is the designated agent to handle fiscal matters for the museum, and which runs the museum cafe.)


Manhattan Skyline by Walter Pach
Medium: etching on paper
Walter Pach (1883-1958) was an artist turned writer and art critic. He was instrumental in organizing the 1913 Armory Show in New York City, an international art exhibition that introduced the general public to modernist trends originating in Europe. As a painter, Pach was both a realist and a modernist. Pach's etching of the Manhattan skyline in the collection of the Museum at Hebron has an inscription dated 1920 to Albert Duveen, noted art collector and dealer.



Catch of the Day by Anneta Duveen
Medium: oil on parchment
Anneta Duveen (1924-2007) was a sculptor, watercolorist and illustrator. Major commissioned works include busts of Robert F. Kennedy and industrialist John M. Olin. Tradition has it that Catch of the Day was painted on an outing during which Duveen's younger son caught, and later cooked, the fish featured in the study.


East River Power Plant by Joseph Pennell
Etching on paper
Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) was an etcher and illustrator from Pennsylvania who spent much of his career in England and Europe collaborating with his wife, Elizabeth Robbins Pennell, a travel writer. Toward the end of his life, he lived in Brooklyn and taught etching at the Art Students League in Manhattan.


Trafalgar Square Fountain by Joseph Pennell
Etching on paper
Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) was an etcher and illustrator from Pennsylvania who spent much of his career in England and Europe collaborating with his wife, Elizabeth Robbins Pennell, a travel writer. Toward the end of his life, he lived in Brooklyn and taught etching at the Art Students League in Manhattan.


Self Portrait (1894) by Robert J. Wickenden
Etching reproduced in book of poetry, signed by the artist
Robert J. Wickenden (1861-1931) was an artist, writer and art dealer. Along with an opus including portraits of notables and landscapes, he authored several monographs on French painters of the so-called Barbizon School, many of which he became personally acquainted with during his travels in Europe.


Magazine cover, "Ethel Clayton" (1921) by Benjamin Osro Eggleston
Magazine reproduction on paper
Benjamin Osro Eggleston (1867-1937) was born in Minnesota, but moved to Brooklyn in the late 1880s. He spent his summers painting at the art colony in Old Lime, Connecticut, and later at a studio in Massachusetts. Portraits such as the one shown in this magazine cover were mostly literal renderings of their subjects, and were an important source of income for Brooklyn artists.


Magazine cover, "Dorothy Dalton" (1921) by Benjamin Osro Eggleston
Magazine reproduction on paper
Benjamin Osro Eggleston (1867-1937) was born in Minnesota, but moved to Brooklyn in the late 1880s. He spent his summers painting at the art colony in Old Lime, Connecticut, and later at a studio in Massachusetts. Portraits such as the one shown in this magazine cover were mostly literal renderings of their subjects, and were an important source of income for Brooklyn artists.


Magazine cover: "May McAvoy" (1922) by Harry Roseland
Magazine reproduction on paper
Harry Roseland was born in Brooklyn and never strayed far from his hometown. He became well-known for his portrayals of the everyday lives of African-Americans. He was also known for his portraits. Portraits such as the one shown in this magazine cover were mostly literal renderings of their subjects, and were an important source of income for Brooklyn artists.


Cover illustration for the story "Retributive Justice" by Edward C. Caswell
Magazine reproduction on paper
Edward C. Caswell (1879-1963) was a newspaper and book illustrator, who on occasion exhibited his work in art galleries. In the 1920s, he kept a studio in the Ovington Building in Brooklyn, and in subsequent decades, in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. He helped to establish annual outdoor art exhibitions in Greenwich Village.


Detail of cover illustration for the story "Pretty Little Pirate" by Edward C. Caswell
Magazine reproduction on paper
Edward C. Caswell (1879-1963) was a newspaper and book illustrator, who on occasion exhibited his work in art galleries. In the 1920s, he kept a studio in the Ovington Building in Brooklyn, and in subsequent decades, in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. He helped to establish annual outdoor art exhibitions in Greenwich Village.


Dining room of interior decorator Charles J. Duveen (C.J. Charles, Charles of London) by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings
Medium: watercolor.
T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings (1905-1976) was an interior decorator and furniture designer who was associated with the firm of Charles of London from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. It is apparent from the watercolor of the interior of Duveen's home in England that Gibbings was an excellent artist, although he was not to become known as such. After working for Duveen, he set up his own studio, where he established a line of furniture inspired by the designs of ancient Greece.


Living room of interior decorator Charles J. Duveen (C.J. Charles, Charles of London) by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings
Medium: watercolor.
T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings (1905-1976) was an interior decorator and furniture designer who was associated with the firm of Charles of London from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. It is apparent from the watercolor of the interior of Duveen's home in England that Gibbings was an excellent artist, although he was not to become known as such. After working for Duveen, he set up his own studio, where he established a line of furniture inspired by the designs of ancient Greece.


Magazine cover portrait: Ernfred Anderson by Benjamin Osro Eggleston
Magazine reproduction on paper
Benjamin Osro Eggleston (1867-1937) was born in Minnesota, but moved to Brooklyn in the late 1880s. He spent his summers painting at the art colony in Old Lime, Connecticut, and later at a studio in Massachusetts. This portrait demonstrates a marked evolution of his style from his early works.


Ovington Building (1888) by Artist Unknown
Printing on paper
This rendering of the Ovington Building is from an Ovington Brothers catalogue. The Ovington Building was erected at the corner of Clark and Fulton Streets in 1883. The Ovington Brothers were dealers in fine ceramics. They vacated the building in the early 1890s, and rented space there to artists. Many prominent Brooklyn artists kept studios in the building, which was demolished around 1960.


Landscape by Stanislav Rembski
Medium: watercolor
Stanislav Rembski (1896-1998) was born in Poland, and immigrated to America in 1922, soon thereafter establishing a studio in the Ovington Building in Brooklyn. He later moved to Manhattan, and then to Baltimore. This watercolor is probably of rural Maryland.


Cityscape by Stanislav Rembski
Medium: watercolor
Stanislav Rembski (1896-1998) was born in Poland, and immigrated to America in 1922, soon thereafter establishing a studio in the Ovington Building in Brooklyn. He later moved to Manhattan, and then to Maryland. This watercolor is probably a street in Baltimore.


Detail from magazine cover: African-American Woman with Child by Harry Roseland
Magazine reproduction on paper
Harry Roseland was born in Brooklyn and never strayed far from his hometown. He became well-known for his portrayals of the everyday lives of African-Americans. The scene above is typical of his renderings of domestic life, which were generally intimate and uplifting. Roseland was also known as a portrait painter. Portrait commissions were an important source of income for Brooklyn artists.


London Street Scene by Joseph Pennell
Etching on paper
Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) was an etcher and illustrator from Pennsylvania who spent much of his career in England and Europe collaborating with his wife, Elizabeth Robbins Pennell, a travel writer. Toward the end of his life, he lived in Brooklyn and taught etching at the Art Students League in Manhattan.  He was a friend of  the American expatriate painter James Abbott McNeil Whistler. Pennell and his wife co-authored a biography of the artist.


Hudson River Scene 1 (1931) by Leon Dabo
Charcoal on tracing paper
Leon Dabo (1868?-1960) was born in Detroit. He studied in Europe under William Morris Hunt and others, and worked for some time as a mural painter. His dreamy, understated landscapes were popular in Europe, and eventually were accepted by American audiences as well. This is one of three drawings executed in an oriential style in the late summer-early fall of 1931.


Hudson River Scene 2 (1931) by Leon Dabo
Charcoal on tracing paper
Leon Dabo (1868?-1960) was born in Detroit. He studied in Europe under William Morris Hunt and others, and worked for some time as a mural painter. His dreamy, understated landscapes were popular in Europe, and eventually were accepted by American audiences as well. This is one of three drawings executed in an oriential style in the late summer-early fall of 1931.


Hudson River Scene 3 (1931) by Leon Dabo
Charcoal on tracing paper
Leon Dabo (1868?-1960) was born in Detroit. He studied in Europe under William Morris Hunt and others, and worked for some time as a mural painter. His dreamy, understated landscapes were popular in Europe, and eventually were accepted by American audiences as well. This is one of three drawings executed in an oriential style in the late summer-early fall of 1931.


Sketch of Leon Dabo (1927) by Benjamin Eggleston
Pencil on paper
Benjamin Osro Eggleston (1867-1937) was born in Minnesota, and moved to Brooklyn in the late 1880s. He spent his summers painting at the art colony in Old Lime, Connecticut, and later at a studio in Massachusetts. The pencil sketch of Leon Dabo was an understudy for a final version presented at a meeting of the Brooklyn Society of Artists in 1927 at which artists created and presented caricatures of fellow artists.


Brooklyn Harbor with Manhattan Skyline by Anton Schutz
Etching on paper
Anton Schutz (1894-1977) was born in Germany, and immigrated to the United States after World War I. He settled in New York, studying under Joseph Pennell, and produced several critically aclaimed series of etchings, including many works depicting the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood in which he lived. He later gave up etching and established a firm that speicialized in high-quality art reproductions.



Greenwich Village Townhouse by Edward C. Caswell
Pencil on paper
Edward C. Caswell (1879-1963) was a newspaper and book illustrator, who on occasion exhibited his work in art galleries. In the 1920s, he kept a studio in the Ovington Building in Brooklyn, and in subsequent decades, in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. He helped to establish annual outdoor art exhibitions in Greenwich Village.


Prospect Park (Brooklyn) Walkway, by Anneta Duveen
Medium: Ink on paper
Anneta Duveen (1924-2007) was a sculptor, watercolorist and illustrator. Major commissioned works include busts of Robert F. Kennedy and industrialist John M. Olin. Her later work concentrated on liturgical subjects.


Untitled Interior with Girl by Elsie Manville
Oil on canvas
Elsie Manville (1922-   ) is known for her realist/impressionist scenes of everyday life.


The Temple at Baalbeck (1924) by Nicholas Macsoud
Oil on canvas
Nicholas Macsoud (1884-1972) was a Turkish-born artist who practiced in Brooklyn, N.Y. for many years. He painted The Temple at Baalback during a tour of the Middle East during which he completed several works, one of which is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.


Parlor of the Henshaw Family Home, Brooklyn Heights by Stanislav Rembski
Watercolor (?), reproduced on paper
Stanislav Rembski (1896-1998) was born in Poland, and immigrated to America in 1922, soon thereafter establishing a studio in the Ovington Building in Brooklyn. He later moved to Manhattan, and then to Baltimore. This watercolor was reproduced in an issue of Brooklyn Life magazine in the 1920s. The Henshaw familly published Brooklyn Life, and the parlor of their home was the scene of evenings of entertainment for musicians, artists and writers who lived in the fashionable Brooklyn Heights neighborhood.


Dreadnought at Sunrise by Aleth Bjorn
Aleth Bjorn (1859-1949) was a Danish decorative, landscape and marine artist who emmigrated to the United States in the early 20th Century. He was also an inventor and a photographer. Around 1924 he established a studio in Brooklyn Heights.


Landscape (1921) by Robert J. Wickenden
Etching reproduced in book of poetry, signed by the artist
Robert J. Wickenden (1861-1931) was an artist, writer and art dealer. Along with an opus including portraits of notables and landscapes, he authored several monographs on French painters of the so-called Barbizon School, many of which he became personally acquainted with during his travels in Europe.

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