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

Mystic, Silvermine, and Beyond : 1

Art colonies grew because artists heard about them from friends or were impressed by paintings they saw. By the late 1890s Charles Davis had attracted a number of artists to Mystic, Connecticut: “The pallet [sic] and easel have become familiar sights along the river, and the village streets, and among the hills.” Artists who settled there include several who had studied together at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Henry Ward Ranger moved from Old Lyme to Noank in 1904. This small fishing and shipbuilding village near Mystic had been attracting artist visitors, and several would decide to live there. The Mystic Art Association, which includes Noank artists, was founded in 1913. >next

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