Old Lyme Art Colony is an art colony in Old Lyme , Connecticut , USA , founded in 1899 by the American artist Henry Ranger . One of the most famous art colonies in the United States, the first where the artistic movement of impressionism was supported.
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History
Church at Old Lyme , 1905
The Ranger decided to create a place in the United States that resembles the French Barbizon with its art school . Initially, artists, including Lewis Cohen , Henry Rankin Poore , Louis Paul Dessar and William Henry Howe , gathered in 1900 in the large house of a local resident - Florence Griswold (later her house became the Florence Griswold Museum [1] , entering among the national historical monuments of the United States ). The group got stronger when Childe Gassam joined it in 1903.
The creation of the colony was an important step in the development of American impressionism . About 200 artists visited and worked in it for the next 30 years. Some of their works were devoted to the city of Old Lyme and its colony. Interestingly, the first work acquired in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery was May Night by Willard Metcalf with a picture of the house and its owner, Florence Griswold. [2]
Among the outstanding painters who worked in this art colony, Louis Betts , Bruce Crane , Arthur Heming , Wilson Irvine , Allen Butler Talcott , Edward Volkert , Guy Wiggins and Frank Dumont stand out. The only woman among them is Matilda Brown .
The house was transformed into an art museum, which presents the work of artists, as well as personal belongings of the artists who were in it.
See also
- Art Colony Kos Kob
Sources
- Shipp, Steve. American Art Colonies, 1850-1930: A Historical Guide to America's Original Art Colonies and Their Artists. Greenwood Publishing. (1996). ISBN 9780313296192 .
Notes
- ↑ Florence Griswold Museum
- ↑ May Night | Corcoran Archived October 15, 2011 on Wayback Machine