GREENWICH, Conn.— Until recently, if the supercollector Peter Brant and his supermodel wife, Stephanie Seymour Brant, wanted to see their collection on public display, they had to visit a museum. In the 13 years since they established the Brant Foundation, they have loaned prodigiously from their 1,000-odd works. With the launch of the Brant Foundation Art Study Center on June 1, however, the Brants don’t have to leave their hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut, to visit their art.

The center, which is open by appointment only (thebrantfoundation@gmail .com), is housed in a stone barn renovated by the architect Richard Gluckman. It contains three galleries, a video room and a library.

The center’s first exhibition, which runs through next February, includes works by 25 artists, among them Jean-Michel Basquiat, Maurizio Cattelan and Jeff Koons, and covers a period of 30 years. This time span, says Brant, who curated the show with his wife, was chosen to mirror that of the late curator Henry Geldzahler’s famous 1969 exhibit, "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, picking up where the museum’s display left off. Geldzahler, Brant says, "established the New York School as the successor to the School of Paris and influenced the direction I took in building our collection."

In the future, the Brants also plan to feature younger talents. Up next is the installation artist Urs Fischer, who, says Brant, "is one of our favorites." "Going Public" originally appeared in the May 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's May 2009 Table of Contents.