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On Friday, June 26, 1914, the artists and a group of local townspeople held a meeting at Griswold’s house, at which they approved articles of incorporation for the association (later renamed the Lyme Art Association) drawn up by Judge Walter C. Noyes. The group elected Noyes to be the association’s first president.
Looking back on this era of artistic prosperity, Griswold commented in 1937, "So you see, first the artists adopted Lyme, and then Lyme adopted the artists, and now, today, Lyme and art are synonymous." [4] A portion of Griswold's land was purchased by the Lyme Art Association in 1917 so that a gallery could be built. [5]
Aug. 8—OLD LYME — Dressed in top hats, flapper dresses and fascinators, members of the Lyme Art Association recreated the Roaring '20s on Saturday afternoon to celebrate the association's ...
Major exhibitions featuring Voorhees's work have included the Lyme Historical Society and Florence Griswold Museum's Clark G. Voorhees, 1871–1933 (June 13 – August 30, 1981) and Hawthorne Fine Art's The Light Lies Softly: The Impressionist Art of Clark Greenwood Voorhees, 1871–1933 (December 15, 2009 – February 27, 2010).
Henry Ward Ranger was born on January 29, 1858, in New York State.His mother was Martha Marie, and his father Ward Valencourt Ranger. He was born in the rural western part of New York State, most likely in Geneseo and grew up in Syracuse, where his father worked as a commercial photographer, but his father also had some artistic training and later taught drawing.
The Florence Griswold Museum is an art museum at 96 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, Connecticut centered on the home of Florence Griswold (1850–1937), which was the center of the Old Lyme Art Colony, a main nexus of American Impressionism. The museum is noted for its collection of American Impressionist paintings.
Wiggins began teaching art in Essex, Connecticut, in 1937. [3] He did a portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and gave it to the White House in 1959. [4] [5] Wiggins served as the president of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. [1] He was a member of the National Academy of Design, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and the Lyme Art ...
Thousands of artists — ranging from the late Norman Rockwell to the Oscar-nominated director Wes Anderson — have been named in a widely circulated list of people whose work was used to train a ...