Masterworks by Laurits Anderson Ring,The Bruce Museum: The Bruce Museum in Greenwich returned on July 15 with its exhibition On the Edge of the World: Masterworks by Laurits Anderson Ring from SMK – the National Gallery of Denmark that was similarly suspended due to COVID restrictions in March. Ring, a Realist and Symbolist painter, is considered one of the most important Danish painters in the decades around the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. Here, The Bruce showcases 25 of the most important pieces that represent the themes, variety and complexity of his oeuvre.

Ring’s work chronicled a period of great upheaval in Denmark, as the processes of industrialization brought major changes to the labor market uprooting people from the country to the city. Although art critics have drawn parallels in his work to the landscapes of American realists and naturalists at the time, the lay person would not be faulted  for finding Ring’s work reminiscent of the great Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh. Certainly for their shared melancholy and the stoic townspeople that populate their art. Open Tuesday to Sunday: 10am-5pm. This one is worth a trip.

The Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10am to 5pm. We show it on our Calendar on weekends!