The dog days of summer may be ending, but you better believe any dog in our collection and on our plaza is worth befriending.
Here are a few of our favorite art-loving furry friends to celebrate International Dog Day! Can we get a round of a-paws for them? 🐾
→ DOGS IN THE COLLECTION
Who let them out?
→ COMMUNITY CORNER
Share your four-legged friend’s photos with us on social media using #MyBkM!
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
From the top: Abbott H. Thayer (American, 1849–1921). Chadwick's Dog, 1874. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. John White Chadwick, 29.62. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Ogata Gekko (Japanese, 1859–1920). Puppies, ca. 1890–1910. Color woodblock print on paper. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Dr. Eleanor Z. Wallace, 2007.32.72. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828). Portrait of Don Tadeo Bravo de Rivero, 1806. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 34.490. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Emil Fuchs (American, born Austria, 1866–1929). Great Dane, 1893. Bronze. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Emil Fuchs, 32.2092.7. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868). The Dog of Mido Kanapaku (Mido Kanapuko Dono no Inu), from A Collection of Tales from Uji, ca. 1830. Color woodblock print on paper. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Frothingham, 43.236.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); John James Audubon (American, born Haiti, 1785–1851). Hare Indian Dog. Lithograph. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Emily Winthrop Miles, 64.98.68. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894–1978). Gus Weltie, High Tor, New York, 1950s. Gelatin silver print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga, 82.65.433. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); @miss_pepper_the_cockerpoo on Instagram; @cayleighsirphotography on Instagram; @zaidenwerg on Instagram; @heather.sanderson on Instagram; @el_perro_smalls on Instagram; @heather.sanderson on Instagram; @balta.simone on Instagram.
