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Center for Brooklyn History
This exhibition was originally organized and published by the Brooklyn Historical Society.
This exhibition presented thirteen watercolors from BHS's collection by 19th-century Brooklynite James Ryder Van Brunt.
Van Brunt was a descendant of Brooklyn's earliest settlers and a gifted amateur painter who devoted decades to recording neat and colorful views of Dutch homesteads and historic landmarks. His images of these picturesque sites, a number of which had already been demolished, reflected the widespread nostalgia for an agrarian past during a period of rapid change as Brooklyn grew from a collection of villages into a city.
This exhibition presented thirteen watercolors from BHS's collection by 19th-century Brooklynite James Ryder Van Brunt.
Van Brunt was a descendant of Brooklyn's earliest settlers and a gifted amateur painter who devoted decades to recording neat and colorful views of Dutch homesteads and historic landmarks. His images of these picturesque sites, a number of which had already been demolished, reflected the widespread nostalgia for an agrarian past during a period of rapid change as Brooklyn grew from a collection of villages into a city.