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Life and Genre : 3 Edwin White and John Morton were painting genre scenes in this state as early as the 1840s. They were here only briefly, but George Durrie spent his life in New Haven painting landscapes that verge on genre. Lithographs of Durrie’s paintings, which were issued by Currier and Ives, helped create a lasting image of rural New England. In the village of Morris, Connecticut in 1885, William Lippincott saw American women as prettier and gentler than their Colonial predecessors, with leisure for art and literature. His painting foreshadows the theme of the contemplative woman, which was prominent in American art at the end of the century. >next (Connecticut & American Impressionism) 1 . 2 . 3 |