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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]
He owned two properties – one in Lyme on Grassy Hill Road in 1907 and the second in Old Lyme on Sill Lane in 1915. Ramsdell became a member of the Impressionist Old Lyme Art Colony in 1907, and the Lyme Art Association , exhibiting with them between 1907 and 1915.
The main street of the town, Lyme Street, is a historic district with several homes once owned by sea captains. The town has had for many years a thriving art community. Its principal institutions include the Florence Griswold Museum, the Lyme Art Association, and the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts. Several seasonal beach communities are in Old Lyme ...
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 ...
Platt was a member of the group that gravitated to the Cornish Art Colony, which formed around Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Cornish, New Hampshire. His own garden in Cornish, made between 1892 and 1912, exemplifies a new style, essentially an Arts and Crafts setting for Beaux-Arts Neo-Georgian and Colonial Revival architecture.
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 ...