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Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic

New Walter Wick Exhibition Opening -

January 28, 2012 - April 22, 2012

This retrospective spotlights the playful and interactive world of Walter Wick, best-selling author and artist-creator of the Can You See What I See? series and co-creator, with writer Jean Marzollo, of the I Spy books for children. Approximately 40 large-scale color photographs from his books, as well as several of the models used to craft the images will be on view in this family-friendly exhibition sure to engage all ages!

The exhibition will be on a scale that is playful, entertaining and unexpected. The models, photographs, and behind-the-scenes video clips help visitors understand Wick’s creative process. The photographs, enlarged to five to six-foot wide, reveal details and colors not possible in the book reproductions.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Day at the Bruce Museum: Presented by Youth@Bruce

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Diane W. Darst Family Art Appreciation Lecture: “Learning to Look®” at Rembrandt

Sunday, November 20, 2011 — 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

This program is designed especially for families and children to foster appreciation and understanding of art related to current Museum exhibitions and based on the Learning to Look® curriculum developed by Diane W. Darst and Sue Ann Massey Williamson. Today’s program will be presented in conjunction with the Rembrandt Drawings exhibition.

The program begins with a brief lesson presented at 1:15 and repeated again at 2:15 p.m. that will focus on Rembrandt the artist and his works of art. The lessons for this program will be led by Alice Scovell Coleman, a Learniing to Look® instructor. There will be informal, family dialogues in front of the art on exhibit in the galleries and drawing activities in the Education Workshop.

Divided Light and Color: American Impressionist Landscapes

October 29, 2011 - January 29, 2012

Still among the best loved of all artistic movements, Impressionism records the world with a memorable alacrity, capturing scenes with a spontaneous shorthand of divided light and color. Impressionist landscapes were first codified outside Paris by Monet and Renoir in 1869, but soon spread abroad, where, by the late 1880s, they found an enthusiastic and highly individualized group of practitioners in America. Many of these early American Impressionists would make the pilgrimage to France, some working with Monet. One of the greatest strengths of the Bruce Museum’s permanent collection and local private collectors' interests is American Impressionist landscape. The exhibition Divided Light and Color: American Impressionist Landscapes will bring together two dozen of the finest examples of this art in a show with imagery that continues to enchant and endure.

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Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection

September 24, 2011 - January 8, 2012

The exhibition Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection presents highlights from one of the finest private collections of Dutch drawings in the world, assembled over five decades by George and Maida Abrams.

• This show features ten works by Rembrandt as well as nearly fifty drawings by his pupils and followers, including sheets never before exhibited or published.

• This will be the first time that any paintings or drawings by Rembrandt have ever been exhibited at the Bruce Museum.

• To supplement this extraordinary event, we have also arranged to borrow for a brief few weeks two splendid examples of Rembrandt’s paintings, the Portrait of a Bearded Man in Red Doublet of 1633 from a private collection and Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo of 1658 from Otto Naumann Ltd

Rembrandt Paintings- Limited viewing

The new Bruce Museum exhibition Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection opening on September 24, 2011.

On Friday September 19, 2011, to supplement this extraordinary show, we now have on view for a brief few weeks ( until October 10, 2011) two splendid examples of Rembrandt’s paintings, the Portrait of a Bearded Man in Red Doublet of 1633 (above left) from a private collection and Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo of 1658 ( above right) from Otto Naumann Ltd. These constitute the first paintings and drawings by Rembrandt ever exhibited at the Bruce Museum. The paintings provide excellent examples of the master’s early and late style. The painting of 1633 attests to youthful Rembrandt’s famous ability to bring his sitters vividly to life and demonstrates the style that made him the most-sought-after portraitist of his day in Amsterdam. The man’s lifelike expression is complemented by his bright red doublet, an unusually colorful outfit, very different from the somber black attire usually worn by Rembrandt’s patrons. The sitter’s identity has not yet been discovered, but the doublet and braid fastenings had military associations and it has been speculated that he might have been foreign soldier residing in the year of its commission in The Hague.

In contrast The Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo offers an excellent example of Rembrandt’s later, more painterly and tenebrous style. It depicts a young bearded man in his prime, posed three-quarter length and frontally, his hands on his hips and his steady gaze meeting the viewer’s with confidence bordering on defiance. It was painted in the year that Rembrandt was forced to vacate his house and art collection following his declaration of bankruptcy in 1656. The subject’s identity once again is unknown, indeed, notwithstanding his individualized features, it is not even certain that the painting is a portrait. However, by the early nineteenth century the work was called a “Portrait of a Dutch Admiral.” While his brown doublet, sash and beret were not elements of everyday attire in the seventeenth century, the subject’s pose, with arms akimbo, also had military and specifically nautical associations, suggesting that he may have been a member of the burgeoning maritime community in Amsterdam. Whoever the sitter is, the painting is a fine example of Rembrandt’s bold late manner, a style which increasingly fell out of favor with the rise of international Classicism in the Netherlands.

Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry

July 16, 2011 - March 11, 2012 at the Bruce Museum

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Luis Velasquez

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Louis Velasquez playing for the Bruce Muesum Predators, takes a pitch for a ball during the fourth annual townwide Greenwich Wiffle Ball Tournament at the Greenwich Polo Club, Conyers Farm, Saturday July 16, 2011

Saddle Up! Horsing Around at the Bruce Museum

July 2, 2011 - September 25, 2011

Carl Rungius Fall Roundup, 1919 Bruce Museum Collection

#Horses #equistrian #equine #bruce museum #horse art #greenwich

Diane W. Darst Family Art Appreciation Lecture: Learning to Look at Picasso and Printmaking

Sunday, June 26, 2011 — 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

This education program is designed especially for families and children to foster appreciation and understanding of art related to current Museum exhibitions and based on the Learning to Look® curriculum developed by Sue Ann Massey Williamson and Diane W. Darst, Ph.D. Presented to complement the exhibition Picasso’s Vollard Suite: The Sculptor’s Studio, an exhibition of approximately 40 etchings created by Picasso from 1930-1937, this program begins with a short background lesson on the artist at 1:15, which is repeated again at 2:15, followed by ongoing, informal family dialogues in the exhibition gallery

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Seated Model and Sculptor Studying Sculptured Head, c. March 1933. Etching, 10-1/2 x 7-5/8 in., (Plate 38) © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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In 1932, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) purchased the château Boisgeloup in Normandy, where he set himself up with a fully appointed studio for sculpture, a medium to which he would devote himself in the years to come. The excitement of working in the three-dimensional art form, which had always been subsidiary to pictorial art for Picasso, inspired one of the great series of modern prints, “The Sculptor’s Studio,” forty-six etchings made over the course of a year, from spring 1933 to spring 1934. Rendered in the purified linear style that he first began to exploit during the First World War, these extraordinary images bring the classical world of the artist-and-model, as Picasso imagined it, fully to life.

This exhibition will feature key images of The Sculptor’s Studio etchings from the group of 100 prints he made for the legendary art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard. These superb works from the Vollard Suite demonstrate Picasso’s ability to please and astonish with equal intensity.

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Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT iCreate, 2011 teen art exhibition

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