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.
Auguste Rodin, Le Baiser (The Kiss)
Auguste Rodin, Le Baiser (The Kiss)
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss), 1886 Bronze Bruce Museum, Gift of Melissa Anne and Jillian Leigh Pedone in memory of their father, Anthony Paul Pedone, 94.24
Frederick MacMonnies, Diana
Frederick MacMonnies, Diana
Frederick MacMonnies (American, 1863–1937) Diana, 1888 Bronze Bruce Museum, Gift of M. Christmann Zulli, 2020.20
Gaston Lachaise, Man Walking (Portrait of Lincoln Kirstein)
Gaston Lachaise, Man Walking (Portrait of Lincoln Kirstein)
Gaston Lachaise ,(American, born France, 1882–1935), Man Walking (Portrait of Lincoln Kirstein), 1934 Bronze with brown patina Bruce Museum, Museum Purchase made possible in part by the Pasculano Acquisition Fund, 2010.01
Henry Moore, Maquette for Reclining Draped Figure
Henry Moore, Maquette for Reclining Draped Figure
Henry Moore (British, 1889–1986) Maquette for Reclining Draped Figure, conceived in 1952, cast before 1961 Green patinated bronze on ebonized base Bruce Museum, Gift of Mildred and Robert Rosenberg, 2011.06
Hiram Powers, Proserpine
Hiram Powers, Proserpine
Hiram Powers (American, 1805–1873) Proserpine, 1843–1849 Marble Bruce Museum, 97.157
Mary Bauermeister, Pencil Box
Mary Bauermeister, Pencil Box
Mary Bauermeister (German, 1934-2023) Pencil Box, n.d. Glass, optical lenses and collage with ink in a metal box on a rotating base Bruce Museum, Gift of the Hoffman Family, 2011.08.01
Mary Frank, Persephone
Mary Frank, Persephone
Mary Frank (British, b. 1933) Persephone, 1987 Bronze Bruce Museum, Gift of Zita and Edward J. Rosenthal and Family, 2012.11.03
