The Bruce Museum, a Greenwich institution known for hosting exhibitions related to the arts and sciences, has received a collection of 70 works of art from a local anonymous couple, estimated to be valued upwards of $50 million, making it the largest art donation ever in the museum's 112-years history. Anchoring the anonymous gift, which comprises works by Pablo Picasso, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth, is Edward Hopper's last painting "Two Comedians" (1965). The work, depicting the artist alongside his wife interpreted as a gesture towards the end of their life together, once belonged to Frank Sinatra and sold at Sotheby's for $12,5 millions in 2018. Experts across the American art field say the donation has the potential to widen the museu's reach, which long catered to a local and ultra-wealthy constituency, competing with neighboring institutions in New York for attendance. Art historian Robert Hobbs told ARTnews that in the past the Bruce, "has been fledgling art museum with occasional major shows", saying the current gift "should set it on course to become the important art museum that Greenwich well deserves." Source: ARTnews