WOODBURY, CONN. — Through February 27, Fenn Gallery is presenting “The Drawn Line,” a group exhibition of works on paper and sculpture. The public is invited to the artists’ reception on Saturday, January 22, from 4 to 6 pm.

Artwork represented in the show ranges from the classical to expressionist depiction of figure, landscape and everyday life to the abstract representation of nature. The show emphasizes the artists’ manipulation of a wide array of materials, including traditional drawing media such as charcoal, gouache and conte crayon, and less conventional media and surface such as wire, mud and blackboard.

Included in the show are the surreal landscapes of Marc Chabot, the current curator of the Natalie Van Vleck collections at Flanders Nature Center in Woodbury and a past exhibitor at the Aldrich and Mattatuck Museums in Ridgefield and Waterbury, Conn., respectively. Returning to Fenn Gallery is Michael Paterson, whose adept and sparing use of line and color in his Matisse-like studies elicit an emotional and poetic response. Paterson will also premiere his first collection of minimalist wire sculptures called “air drawings.”

Paton Miller of Southampton, N.Y., adds an intriguing dimension with his collagelike assemblages of small paper studies from everyday life mounted on 4- by 5-foot boards. Miller is a visiting lecturer on art, and is in numerous national and international public and private collections.

Also on exhibit are the haunting and provocative abstract studies of Ivy Dachman and the sensitive and skillfully drafted nudes of Vince Giarrano of Washington, Conn.

Fenn Gallery is at 345 Main Street South. For information, www.FennGallery.com or 203-263-3449.

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GREENWICH, CONN. — The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science presents “Recent Acquisitions: Photography from the Permanent Collection” January 22 through May 1. The exhibition features approximately 35 photographs drawn from more than 400 recently given to the museum by 13 donors. The gifts include Nineteenth and Twentieth Century vintage prints that cover a broad range of styles, including Nineteenth Century portraiture, travel photography, Civil War photography, Twentieth Century modernism and photojournalism, as well as abstract work and color photography.

The earliest work in the show is a salt print from a calotype negative that was made by the famous British photographers D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847, shortly after the 1839 invention of photography. Other Nineteenth Century photographs include a salt print of Egyptian ruins by Felix Tenard and an albumen print from Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War.

The exhibition also includes many Twentieth Century photographs, including work by photographic luminaries Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aaron Siskind, Bill Brandt and others. Little-seen rarities in the gifts to the museum include a group of large-scale Russian photographs by Jeanette Klute, an early innovator in the dye transfer process. In addition, there are selections from a large and memorable collection of portraits of jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker and Dave Brubeck.

The exhibition will be presented in the museum’s Bantle Lecture Gallery, which may be closed for viewing due to public programs taking place. Visitors should call ahead for viewing hours.

The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science is at 1 Museum Drive. For information, www.BruceMuseum.org or 203-0869-0376.