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

The Art Colony at Old Lyme : 1

The friends who joined Henry Ward Ranger in Old Lyme the summer of 1900 dreamed of Barbizon, the art colony in France known for its simple, heartfelt pastorals and delicate tonalities. With Childe Hassam’s arrival in 1903, and Willard Metcalf and Walter Griffin coming soon after, the colony’s attention turned emphatically to Impressionism. Scores of like-minded artists came after seeing Old Lyme paintings in major exhibitions. Old Lyme became the largest, best-known Impressionist art colony in America, eventually involving more than 300 artists.

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