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 : 2

In Silvermine, which spans parts of Norwalk, Wilton, and New Canaan, the sculptor Solon Borglum founded yet another art colony. The artists who came to live near him in the mid-1890s met weekly in his studio to critique or “knock” one another’s work. “The Knockers” began holding exhibitions in 1908. They became the progenitors of today’s Silvermine Guild of Artists, which was founded in 1922 and even then included painters, illustrators, architects, craftspeople, musicians, and writers. Painting styles in the early days of the Guild ranged from Impressionism to Social Realism to Modernism. >next

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