Art
The Bruce Museum’s art collection includes approximately 3,200 works spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, with particular strengths in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art by members of the Cos Cob art colony.
The Bruce Museum hosted annual exhibitions between 1912 and 1926 by members of the Greenwich Society of Artists, many of whom were leading figures of the Cos Cob art colony. Acquisitions from those exhibitions form the nucleus of the Museum’s collection of American Impressionism, including work by Emil Carlsen, Childe Hassam, Elmer Livingston McRae, Mina Fonda Ochtman, and Leonard Ochtman. Since that time, the Museum has deepened its holdings in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European art across a wide range of media, namely paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper. Photography represents a rapidly growing area of the collection.
The collection strategy for the Bruce will continue to emphasize the trajectory of modernism from 1850 to the present day, encompassing global contemporary art as part of its focus.
Carlotta Corpron, Fluid Light Design (The Curtains)
Carlotta Corpron, Fluid Light Design (The Curtains)
Carlotta Corpron (American, 1901–1988) Fluid Light Design (The Curtains), 1947 Gelatin silver print Bruce Museum, Gift of Judith and Stephen Wertheimer, 2012.09.01
Eadward Muybridge, Animal Locomotion
Eadward Muybridge, Animal Locomotion
Eadward Muybridge (British, 1830–1904) Animal Locomotion, Plate 163, 1887 Gelatin silver print Bruce Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis L. Capers, 88.26
Florence Henri , Cygne
Florence Henri , Cygne
Florence Henri (American, 1893–1982) Cygne, 1928 Gelatin silver print Bruce Museum, Gift of Rick Wester and Jennifer Garvin, 2007.05.11
Gary Winogrand, New York City
Gary Winogrand, New York City
Gary Winogrand (American, 1928–1984) New York City, 1967 Silver bromide print Bruce Museum, Gift of Will and Joanne Potter, 2006.45.24
Margaret Bourke-White, Study of Insects Hanging from Cocoon
Margaret Bourke-White, Study of Insects Hanging from Cocoon
Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971) Study of Insects Hanging from Cocoon, circa 1935 Vintage gelatin silver print Bruce Museum, Gift of Fernando Barnuevo and Gloria Ybarra, 2005.01.19
Mark Markov-Grinberg, Now and Forever
Mark Markov-Grinberg, Now and Forever
Mark Markov-Grinberg (Russian, 1907–2003) Now and Forever, 1935 (printed later) Gelatin silver print Bruce Museum, Gift of Richard and Elena Pollack, 2003.07.05
Walker Evans , Front Porch of Miner’s House
Walker Evans , Front Porch of Miner’s House
Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975), Front Porch of Miner’s House, 1935 Gelatin silver print, Bruce Museum, Gift of Rick Wester and Jennifer Garvin, 2007.05.35
