Date: Nov 20, 2015 - Mar 13, 2016
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008
NOVEMBER 20, 2015–MARCH 13, 2016
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 5th Floor
This exhibition charts shifts in artistic styles and national moods through approximately 140 objects. Included are paintings of the Coney Island shore in the 1870s by William Merritt Chase and John Henry Twachtman; modernist depictions of the amusement park by Joseph Stella and Milton Avery; Depression-era scenes by Reginald Marsh; photographs by Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Weegee, and Bruce Davidson; Coney Island carousel animals and sideshow ephemera; and contemporary works by Daze and Swoon.
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008 is organized by Robin Jaffee Frank, Chief Curator, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. The Brooklyn presentation is organized by Connie H. Choi, Assistant Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence, the Henry Luce Foundation, and The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
The Brooklyn Museum presentation is sponsored by Oscar Insurance Corporation.
Additional support for the Brooklyn Museum presentation is provided by Clark R. Green, Constance and Henry Christensen III, Ron and Barbara Cordover, Lizanne Fontaine and Bob Buckholz, the Norman and Arline Feinberg Exhibition Fund, the Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Exhibition Fund, and Friends of the Boardwalk.
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/coney_island_american_dreamland