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. An Out-of-Doors Study (1889) VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
John Singer Sargent’s portrait of French
artist Paul Helleu and his wife Alice was Practical Information
painted during the couple’s visit to the 200 Eastern Pkwy. Map 23 C4.
Sargent family at Fladbury. (718) 638-5000.Tel (718) 638-
5000. Open 11am–6pm Wed–
Sun (to 10pm Thu); 1st Sat of
each month (except Sep): 11am–
11pm (free). Closed Jan 1, Thksgv,
Fifth floor Dec 25. Dona tion expected. 7
9 8 - = Concerts, lec t ures.
∑ brooklynmuseum.org
Luce visible Transport
storage
q 2, 3 to East ern Parkway/
Brooklyn Museum. @ B41, B45,
B67, B69.

Luce Center for
American Art
. Winter Scene in
Brooklyn (1820)
Francis Guy’s depiction of
downtown Brooklyn is from the
American Identities Collection.

Fourth floor
The Dinner Party (1974–9)
Judy Chicago’s vast installation is
the centerpiece of the Elizabeth
A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

Moorish Smoking
Room (c. 1864–5)
This room is from
a house on West 54th
Street, bought by J. D.
Ibis Coffin (305–330 BC) Rockefeller in 1884.
The sacred bird of ancient
Egypt merited a splendid
coffin of gold leaf and silver.
Gallery Guide
The collection is on five floors, with the Connecting
Cultures exhibit on the first; Arts of Asia and the Islamic
World on the second; Egyptian, Classical, and European
Alexander the Great painting and sculpture on the third; the decor ative arts
The military leader was portrayed on the fourth; and American art on the fifth. There is
in alabaster in the 1st century BC. special exhibition space on the first and fourth floors.

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