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 Cos Cob Art Colony : 1

In about 1890, John Twachtman, who had settled in Greenwich, began offering summer classes in landscape painting at a boarding house that welcomed artists. It belonged to his friends the Holleys and overlooked the harbor in the Cos Cob section of town. J. Alden Weir visited from Branchville and sometimes shared the instruction. Theodore Robinson came from Giverny and twice stayed for weeks. Childe Hassam was in and out for nearly three decades. For several years, Genjiro Yeto was there to explain Japanese art and culture. By 1895 Twachtman’s Greenwich farm had become “a regular rendezvous for Impressionists,” and the Holley House (now the Bush-Holley House and a museum) was home to the first Impressionist art colony in America. >next

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