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The
American Artist in Connecticut: Introduction |
Connecticut
& American Impressionism
: 1 In the 1890s, Connecticut led the way in creating American Impressionism, chiefly because of John Henry Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, who worked together in Greenwich and Branchville. Their friends Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, and Willard Metcalf arrived soon after and did some of their best painting in Connecticut. These five are undisputed masters of American Impressionism. Hundreds of other artists came to work and learn, primarily at Cos Cob, Old Lyme, and Mystic. Cos Cob was the first Impressionist art colony in America. Old Lyme became the largest and best-known. >next 1 . 2 . 3 |