Bruce Museum: Draw like an Old Master

Visitors are encouraged to take charcoal and pencil to paper on the easels available at the Bruce Museum as part of the exhibition Northern Baroque Splendor, primarily comprised of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings. A series of drawing tablets and supplies are arranged in the gallery before an elaborate still life setting, available for anyone inspired or willing to try their hand at depicting the scene. The exhibition and drawing station are open during Museum hours. This event is free with admission. For more information, call the Bruce Museum at (203) 869-0376 or visit https://brucemuseum.org/.

The show, which is on view through April 12, 2015, features one of the largest and most varied collections of Northern Baroque art assembled anywhere in recent decades. Primarily comprised of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings, the collection exhibits all the naturalism, visual probity and technical brilliance for which those schools are famous. While many modern collections of Old Masters specialize in a single style or subject matter, the Hohenbuchau Collection is admirable for offering examples of virtually all the genres produced by Lowland artists – history painting, portraiture, genre, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and flower pieces, animal paintings and hunting scenes.

A series of drawing tablets and supplies are arranged in the gallery before an elaborate still life setting, available for anyone inspired or willing to try their hand at depicting the scene.  The exhibition and drawing station are open during Museum hours. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for students up to 22 years, $6 for seniors and free for members and children less than 5 years. Individual admission is free on Tuesday.