Because Halloween is right around the corner, we put together a little spooky season mood board for you. Keep scrolling for clowns, crows, black cats, and more.
Of course, there’s nothing scarier than missing out. Check out our current exhibitions and plan your visit to the Museum soon . . .
Spooky season mood board
Click on an artwork to learn more about it.
From the top: Morris Graves. Moon Mad Crow in the Surf, 1943. Gouache on paper. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Milton Lowenthal, 1991.109.2. © Morris Graves Foundation. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Consuelo Kanaga. Ghost Town, 1950s. Gelatin silver print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga, 82.65.145. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); William Blake. The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun (Rev. 12: 1-4), ca. 1803–5. Black ink and watercolor over traces of graphite and incised lines on wove paper. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of William Augustus White, 15.368. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Russell T. Limbach. Clown, 1938. Lithograph from one stone (blue) on wove paper. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 39.8.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Anne Goldthwaite. Night Series: The Cat, 20th century. Lithograph, white line on wove paper. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Anne Goldthwaite, 49.164.13. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Los Hermanos Penitentes Society. Death Cart, 1890–1910. Wood, hide, hair, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alastair B. Martin, the Guennol Collection, 1997.70. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Kawanabe Kyosai. Two Crows, circa 1885. Woodblock color print. Brooklyn Museum, by exchange, 37.435. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); U. Stephen Johnson. Birches in Autumn, 20th century. Print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 40.573. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Rudolph Cronau. View from Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 1881. Watercolor and black ink on cream, moderately thick, smooth textured wove paper mounted to pulpboard. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Gerold Wunderlich, 1996.221. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Liza Lou. Trailer (detail), 1998–2000. Glass beads, velvet, wood, wire, plaster, found objects, electrical parts. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Sherry and Joel Mallin, 2022.24. © Liza Lou. (Photo: Paula Abreu Pita)
