Phillip A. Bruno January 3 rd 1930 - September 22 nd 2023 When Phillip A. Bruno donated more than 70 artworks from his personal collection to the Hunterian Gallery in Glasgow in 2019, it was a hugely magnanimous way of celebrating his 90 th birthday. The resulting exhibition, A Gift from New York to Glasgow, cemented the New York based gallerist’s relationship with both the Hunterian and the city that had become something of a second home. This came about after the former Associate Director of the Marlborough Gallery was introduced to Clare Henry, the Scottish art critic and New York émigré with whom Bruno would go on to spend the rest of his life. The couple met in 1999 at a New York loft party. They married in 2002, putting the seal on a relationship in which art and life were entwined in a transatlantic adventure that continued for almost a quarter of a century. The announcement of Bruno’s death aged 93 marks the end of a remarkable life, even as it sets down a legacy by
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