The American Artist in Connecticut:
The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection

Introduction
Portraiture
Discovering the Connecticut Landscape
Still Life & Genre
Connecticut & American Impressionism
The Cos Cob Art Colony
Mystic, Silvermine, & Beyond
The Art Colony at Old Lyme

About The Hartford Steam Boiler Collection

Home to Florence Griswold Museum

Discovering the Connecticut Landscape : 3

Most artists who worked in Connecticut in the 19th century were well trained and came from other places. Their landscape paintings celebrate a peaceful and unpretentious countryside. More than a bit of nostalgia was involved, however, for Connecticut was already on the way to becoming more suburban than rural. >next (Still Life & Genre)

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