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Lyme Art Association (LAA) is a nonprofit art organization established in 1914, with roots going back to 1902. The LAA maintains a historic art gallery located at 90 Lyme Street in the Old Lyme Historic District , Old Lyme, Connecticut.
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
The Lyme Academy was founded in 1976 by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler as a figurative academy for the teaching of sculpture, figure drawing, Illustration and painting dedicated to the fine arts. [1] The school offered a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, illustration and drawing, as well as post-baccalaureate ...
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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.