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 : 3

Twachtman stopped teaching in 1899 but lived at the Holley House from the fall of 1901 until shortly before his death the next year. The colony might also have died then but for Elmer Macrae, a Twachtman student married to a Holley daughter, who kept things going for two more decades. The Greenwich Society of Artists formed in 1911. Altogether some 90 artists were active at Cos Cob, as well as dozens of students, but Cos Cob also attracted writers, like Lincoln Steffens, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Willa Cather, and performing artists. It made for a stimulating mix in a Connecticut town just sixty-some minutes from Broadway. >next (Mystic, Silvermine & Beyond)

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