New Exhibition! Canvas and Cast: Highlights from the Bruce Museum’s Art Collection

New Exhibition! Canvas and Cast: Highlights from the Bruce Museum’s Art Collection
February 11 – June 18, 2017

Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830

203-869-0376 brucemuseum.org

The Bruce Museum's exhibition Canvas and Cast: Highlights from the Bruce Museum’s Art Collectionfeatures 35 paintings and 7 sculptures from the Bruce’s growing collection. The show celebrates long-time favorites and many recent acquisitions representing significant moments in the history of art from the 16th through the 20th centuries. This exhibition, organized by Peter C. Sutton, The Susan E. Lynch Executive Director, and curated by Courtney Skipton Long, Zvi Grunberg Postdoctoral Fellow 2016/17 at the Bruce Museum, examines art historical themes including sculpted and painted portraits, narrative scenes and statues, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes.

Canvas and Cast explores artists’ handling of different media – bronze, marble, oil, pastel, acrylic and collage – through examples of 16th-century Dutch portraiture, 19th-century American figural sculpture, academic style painting, and French and American landscapes from the turn of the 20th century.

Canvas and Cast: Highlights from the Bruce Museum’s Art Collection runs through June 18, 2017, and is generously supported by The Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund and the Connecticut Office of the Arts.

Exhibition Programs

Thursday, March 29, 6:00-8:00 pm.

Evening Lecture

Peter C. Sutton, The Susan E. Lynch Executive Director of the Bruce Museum, will provide a lecture in conjunction with the Bruce Museum’s exhibition, Canvas and Cast: Highlights from the Bruce Museum’s Art Collection. Advance registration at Bruce Museum Eventbrite required.

Sunday Afternoon Lecture Series

Sunday, March 12, 3:30 - 4:30 pm.

Childe Hassam & American Impressionism on the Connecticut Coast

by Dr. Jenny Parsons, Assistant Curator, Florence Griswold Museum.

Parsons will focus on Childe Hassam’s art production in Cos Cob and Old Lyme and explore the importance of Connecticut art colonies for the development of American Impressionism. Free and open to the public.

Sunday, April 2, 3:30 - 4:30 pm.

Peppermints and Whiskey: Edward Fuller Bigelow, Paul Griswold Howes and the formation of the Bruce Museum

by Tim Walsh, Manager of Natural History Collection and Citizen Science, Bruce Museum.

Walsh will discuss the 1908 bequeath of a Victorian stone mansion to the town of Greenwich for the purpose of a museum for natural history, history, and art, and chart the historical progression of transforming a house into a museum. Guests will learn about the two men who compiled the collections and introduced our unique institution the Greenwich community. Free and open to the public.

Sunday, April 9, 3:30 - 4:30 pm.

Hidden Treasures: Lessons from the Bruce Museum’s Art Collection

Dr. Courtney S. Long, Zvi Grunberg Postdoctoral Fellow and Curatorial Assistant, Bruce Museum.

Long will discuss lessons learned from the Bruce Museum’s Art Collection by focusing on the relationships between artists and objects that help to narrate the history of art. Free and open to the public.