Bruce Museum: Laurits Andersen Ring: Following an extensive, five-month-long renovation of its changing gallery spaces, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, presents a major new international exhibition, On the Edge of the World: Masterworks by Laurits Andersen Ring from SMK—the National Gallery of Denmark. The exhibition opens on Saturday, February 1, 2020, and will be on view in the Museum’s newly expanded Love Gallery through Sunday, May 24, 2020.

L.A. Ring (1854-1933), a Realist and Symbolist painter, is considered one of the most important Danish painters in the decades around 1900. The national gallery of Denmark holds the largest collection of Ring’s paintings and drawings in the world; On the Edge of the World showcases 25 of the most important pieces that represent the key themes and sheer variety and complexity of his oeuvre.

The exhibit is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10am to 5pm through May 24

More about Laurits Andersen Ring

Through his art, Ring described a time of great upheaval in Denmark. The processes of industrialization caused major changes to the labor market; new enterprises flourished, and people moved from the country to the cities. Denmark was on the way to becoming a modern society.

Although L.A. Ring lived in Denmark all his life, his works display certain parallels to the landscapes of American realism and naturalism. And just as L.A. Ring was keenly interested in how individual man handled the existential challenges arising as a result of the modern breakthrough, so too were many American artists of the time.