Art Exhibits
William Merritt Chase Young Girl Bruce Museum 02-11-17

‘Canvas and Cast’ Exhibit Opens Saturday at Bruce Museum

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The Bruce Museum’s newest exhibit, Canvas and Cast: Highlights from the Bruce Museum’s Art Collection, opens Saturday, Feb. 11 in Greenwich, is a chance to see the museum’s growing collection, which is never on permanent display. The exhibit features 35  paintings and seven sculptures from the collection, including long-time favorites along with recent acquisitions representing art from the 16th through the 20th centuries. ____________

— an announcement, with minor changes, from the Bruce Museum

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The exhibition examines art historical themes including sculpted and painted portraits, narrative scenes and statues, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes. For over a century, the collection at the Bruce Museum has grown steadily and been developed carefully through donations and purchases.

Art Exhibits
Flood at Port Marly Alfred Sisley Bruce 02-04-17

Bruce Museum Has a Major Exhibit on Impressionist Alfred Sisley, Now Through May 21

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The Bruce Museum in Greenwich and the Hôtel de Caumont Centre d’Art in Aix-en-Provence, France, are mounting a major monographic exhibition of the art of the French Impressionist Alfred Sisley (1839 – 1899). The exhibition runs through May 21. The first retrospective in the United States in over twenty years of this purest of all the major Impressionists, the show is comprised of about 50 of Sisley’s paintings from private collections and major museums in Europe and North America. The Bruce Museum will premiere the exhibition and be the only venue in the United States. ___________

— an announcement from the Bruce Museum

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A friend of Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sisley initially worked in the naturalistic landscape tradition of the Barbizon School but increasingly adopted a proto-Impressionistic style, creating a body of work that has an impressive internal consistency and cumulative authority.