GREENWICH, CONN. - The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science presents "Recent Acquisitions: Photography from the Permanent Collection" from January 22 through May 1. The exhibition features approximately 35 photographs drawn from more than 400 recen
GREENWICH, CONN. â The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science presents âRecent Acquisitions: Photography from the Permanent Collectionâ from 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 Gardnerâs 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 museumâs 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.