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Saddle Up! 30 Works of Art Featuring the Horse at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich

GREENWICH, CT.- While the title of the Bruce Museum’s new exhibition “Saddle Up! Horsing Around at the Bruce Museum” may seem a bit irreverent, the approximately 30 works of art featuring the horse are more than sheer whimsy. On view in Greenwich, from July 1 through Sept. 25, the equine artworks cover several centuries and encompass a wide range of media — from a Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) tomb sculpture of a male equestrian figure to a 20th-century photograph by Garry Winogrand of a woman nuzzling a police horse. The title for the show comes from a Bruce Museum contest, the first launched on the museum’s Facebook site, to name the exhibition of horse-themed artworks from the permanent collection. The winning entry was submitted by Matt Farina. Other top picks were Horse Show: Equine Art from the Bruce Museum by Pamela Meharry and Whoa Horsey! by Steve Linderoth. The exhibition, which is on view in the Bantle Lecture Gall