GREENWICH, CT.-The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents Recent Acquisitions: Photography from the Permanent Collection from January 22 through May 1, 2005. The exhibition features approximately 35 photographs drawn from over 400 recently given to the Museum by 13 generous donors. The gifts include extraordinary 19th and 20th-century vintage prints that cover a broad range of styles, including 19th-century portraiture, travel photography, Civil War photography, 20th-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 19th-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 from the 1930s by Mark Markov-Grinberg and a selection of works by the renowned Czech photographer Josef Sudek that show modernist interiors in Prague, and many early color 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 held in the Museum’s Bantle Lecture Gallery, which may be closed for viewing due to public programs taking place. Please call ahead for viewing hours.