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 : 2

Artists loved the Cos Cob experience. Besides shore and sea views, there were woodlands, pretty roads, and backcountry farms. In the tiny village, the painters mixed with fishermen, shipbuilders, and farmers. Pre-Revolutionary houses, including a section of the Holley House itself, were clustered at the water’s edge. >next


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