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Florence Griswold Museum
- Location & Contact Information
- Address: 96 Lyme Street Old Lyme CT 06371
- Telephone Number: +1-860-434-5542
- Official Website: [1]
- Overview
Florence Griswold Museum is an art museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. It is noted for its collection of American Impressionist paintings. The Florence Griswold House forms part of the Museum's Collection and stands on the grounds.
Leading artists of the Lyme Art Colony who stayed at the boarding house were Henry Ward Ranger, Childe Hassam, and Willard Metcalf. US President Woodrow Wilson and his family dined with Miss Florence and the artists in the house.
Museum
The Museum's Robert and Nancy Krible Gallery, featuring 9,500 square feet of exhibit space and sweeping views of the Liuetenant river opened in 2002.
In 2001, the Museum acquired the corporate collection of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, once the world's largest insurer against equipment breakdown. The collection included 157 oil paintings, 31 works on paper and 2 works of sculpture, all Connecticut-related.
Collection highlights:
- Portrait of a Man by Harlan Page (1815)
- The Charter Oak at Harford by Frederic Church in 1946
- Shore of Darien, Connecticut John F. Kensett (1872)
- view of Greenwich, Connecticut David Johnson (1878)
- The Fisher Boy (1840) by Edwin White
- Black Bass' (1872) by Gordon Trumbull
- East Rock, New Haven John Ferguson Wier 1901
- East hartford Meadow Milton Avery (1922)
- Summer EVening, (1886) a Woman at the window Childe Hassam
- Laurel, Edward F. Rook 1905-1910
works by Emil Carlsen, Charles Ebert, Bruce Crane and Willard Metcalf.
Appearance and layout
The entire first floor has been furnished to reflect its appearance in about 1910, the height of its years as an artists' boarding house. Visitors enter through a wide center hall, where an informal gallery displays paintings on grass cloth walls. The ahll also contains Colonial and Empire furniture. Two bedrooms are off the ahllway; Miss Florence's bedroom and a guest bedroom. A parlor on the first floor has artists' brushes on the mantel. In that room the artist-boarders would present various types of entertainment for each other.
Samuel Belcher, arcitect of the Old Lyme Congregational Church, designed the late Georgian-style house for William Noyes. It was built in 1817.
The artists who painted on the house's doors and walls were probably following a tradition imported from hostelries in the French art colonies at Barbizon, Giverny, and Pont-Aven. A total of 41 painted panels are in the downstairs rooms.
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993; In July 2007 the building reopened after a 14-month restoration project.[1]
Gallery
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