The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents a fascinating array of both famous and little-known works in its new exhibition and catalogue Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers. This is the first museum show to feature the great mosaic of Parisian art as a “group portrait” of its leading practitioners.  

At no other time and place was the art of portraiture as rich in expressive potential as early 20th-century Paris. The cult of personality that drove the brilliant careers of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, and Marcel Duchamp demanded new forms of human likeness. While naturalistic portraiture still flourished in the French capital, entirely unprecedented kinds of portraits - Fauve, Cubist, Dada, Surrealist, and Expressionist - now joined the avant-garde comédie humaine.

Kenneth E. Silver, Bruce Museum Adjunct Curator, curates the exhibition and authors the catalogue. The exhibition is graciously underwritten by Betteridge Jewelers and Van Cleef & Arpels.  Additional support has been generously provided by First Republic Bank. Further support is provided by the Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund and a Committee of Honor under the leadership of Carol and George Crapple, Jean Doyen de Montaillou and Michael Kovner, Coverly and Homer McK. Rees, and Michel Witmer.

An exhibition of paired large-format photographs of mountains and glaciers, recorded in the early to mid-1900s and again from 2005 to 2007, that document the story of a warming planet in these panoramas of melting ice from Alaska to Switzerland. The exhibition is supported by the Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund. Please note that this exhibition is held in the Bantle Lecture Gallery, which may be closed for viewing due to programs taking place, please call ahead or check the website for non-viewing times.

The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through Earth’s history of climatic changes. From 700 million years ago, when the Earth may have been almost completely covered in ice, to today’s warming climate, examine the fossil and modern evidence for climatic variations. Learn how scientists mine ancient ice from Greenland’s ice sheet and the Andes Mountains to reveal the history of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. The exhibition is supported by the Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund and a Committee of Honor.

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents a new exhibition on a familiar topic of conversation - the weather - opening March 8, 2008, and running through November 30, 2008.  Phenomenal Weather is a family-friendly exhibition that showcases the astounding variety of weather events that take place around the globe and explores the subject through interactive displays, objects and images

Free with Museum admission. No reservations necessary.