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

Connecticut & American Impressionism : 2

Their French predecessors had celebrated modern life, but the artists who loaded paint boxes and easels onto trains in New York City were fleeing urbanism in times of disturbing change. They found refreshment in Connecticut’s civilized landscape and reassurance that the Yankee values of the country’s founders would endure. >next


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