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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]
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 ...
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).
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 ...
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.
In 1905, when she first visited Old Lyme at the age of 36, she had already won a number of awards and established a critical reputation. The other artists at the Griswold boardinghouse asked Matilda Browne to paint on a door and she contributed a pair of panels on the door leading to Miss Florence’s bedroom titled Bucolic Landscape, forming a scene of calves grazing beneath a tree.