Greenwich, the Cos Cob School is now highly respected and forms the core of the Bruce’s holdings of paintings. In the 1920s, Greenwich became America’s richest town per capita. Its gorgeous waterfront properties on the Long Island Sound and its short commute to Manhattan made the town a desirable spot for those who demanded the best. Dynastic families like Rockefeller and Vanderbilt built stately homes and sent their offspring to local schools. In recent years, celebrities and hedge-fund gurus have settled in Greenwich in search of anonymity in the bucolic “Back Country” setting. Their estates commonly contain blue-chip art collections, with treasures lent frequently to the Bruce Museum. The driving force behind numerous recent successes at This page, above: The entrance to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. Right: founder of the museum, Robert Moffat Bruce (1822 –1909), 1882 by M. D. Holt. Opposite: Faun and Bacchante (1860), by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, which is part of the Bruce Museum’s permanent collection.
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