Wishing you beach days, gorgeous gardens, picnics, dance parties, fresh fruit, flowing creativity, dappled sunlight, and great art as we hit the height of summer.
Summer mood board
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From the top: Brooklyn Museum, 2024. (Photo: Adrianna Glaviano); Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The Vineyards at Cagnes (Les Vignes à Cagnes), 1908. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Edgar W. Garbisch, 51.219. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); William Steig. [Untitled] (Picnic - Fancy Hat). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Jeanne Steig, 2010.20.107. © Estate of William Steig. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Augustus John. Woman by a Riverbank, ca. 1910–12. Oil on panel. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Helen Babbott Sanders, 78.151.7. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Marsden Hartley. Summer Clouds and Flowers, 1942. Oil on fabricated board. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.19. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Martine Barrat. Brighton Beach, Mother and Daughter on a Picnic, 1980. Gelatin silver print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 1994.6.3. © Martine Barrat. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Utagawa Hiroshige. Fudo Falls, Oji, no. 49 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 9th month of 1857. Woodblock print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.49. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Winslow Homer and John Karst. Summer in the Country, 1869. Wood engraving. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Harvey Isbitts, 1998.105.129. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Rufino Tamayo. Watermelon, 1952. Lithograph on paper, sheet. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Selden, 77.228.2. © D.R. Rufino Tamayo / Herederos / México. Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, A.C.. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Martin Johnson Heade. Summer Showers, ca. 1865–70. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 47.8. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
