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 : 3

The Old Lyme colony was a force in American art until the mid-1920s, when new ideas eclipsed the sunny art of American Impressionism. American artists continued to come to Connecticut -- to Silvermine, Westport, Norwalk, Kent, and other places. Arthur Dove pioneered abstract art in Connecticut, John Steuart Curry forged Regionalism, and others addressed Social Realism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. In Connecticut, artists and residents can still live close to nature yet have access to urban art centers, new imagery, and new ideas. End.

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