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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.
His body was returned home to Connecticut and he was buried in Old Lyme. [1] His work can be seen in several major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, [10] Brooklyn Museum, [11] and Smithsonian American Art Museum. [3] Wiggins's son, Guy Arthur Wiggins (1920-2020), [12] was also a painter. [13]
Henry Ward Ranger (1858–1916), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony; William S. Reyburn (1882-1946), U.S. Congressman; Luanne Rice (born 1955), novelist; Edwin J. Roland (1905–1985), Coast Guard admiral; Elizabeth Tashjian (1912–2007), artist and founder of the Nut Museum 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 ...
Church at Old Lyme, Childe Hassam, 1905. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. May Night, Willard Metcalf, 1906. Ranger began his American equivalent to the French Barbizon school, a similar seasonal retreat from less bucolic communities, in the modest boarding house of Florence Griswold, bringing fellow artists Lewis Cohen, Henry Rankin Poore, Louis Paul Dessar, and William Henry Howe ...
Florence Ann Griswold (December 25, 1850 – December 6, 1937) was a resident of Old Lyme, Connecticut, United States who became the nucleus of the "Old Lyme Art Colony" in the early 20th century. Her home has since been made into the Florence Griswold Museum, a National Historic Landmark.
Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
Nov. 22—OLD LYME — White Sand Beach residents Harry Gough and Rich Lemieux say they have to get out a shovel every time it rains to keep the flooding at bay. Flooding happens because water in ...