FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM // Connecticut's Cultural Treasures
The Florence Griswold Museum has, for more than a century, been the home of the Lyme Art Colony, America's center of Impressionism.
Connecticut's Cultural Treasures is a new series of 50 five-minute vignettes that profiles a variety of the state's most notable cultural resources.
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Great American Impressionism Art Museum - THE FLORENCE GRISWOLD OLD LYME CT
Beautiful Art at The Florence Griswold Museum Old Lyme Connecticut, the Home of American Impressionism. The Art Colony of Old Lyme was established in 1899 by Henry Ward Ranger. In its time the most famous art colony in the United States it was the first to adopt Impressionism. Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, John Henry Twackman and Matilda Browne are just a few of the artists represented. Gorgeous paintings in a historic New England location set to music. Enjoy.
Collection Highlights in Video
Childe Hassam Isles of Shoals (1906) 0:48
William Chadwick On the Piazza (1908) 1:28
More Lyme Art Colony Residents:
Henry Ward Ranger
William Robinson
Clark Voorhees
Henry Wiggins
Frank Bicknell
Charles Ebert
Gerard Doudera at the Marquee Gallery
Wee Faerie Village at the Florence Griswold Museum
This family-friendly walking trail features twenty-nine faerie-sized superhero headquarters handcrafted by artists, designers, and faerie-aficionados. Last year over 15,000 visitors enjoyed the month-long event.
The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT presents Supertopia– Wee Faerie Superheroes’ Headquarters and Hideaways on the grounds of museum’s 12-acre campus from September 28 to October 27. Visitors follow a map of Supertopia to explore where superhero faeries live (when they’re not saving the universe) in twenty-nine hand-crafted, faerie-sized hideouts. This annual event has come to signify an enriching, not-to-be-missed outing for visitors of all ages.
This year’s Wee Faerie Village is the eleventh anniversary of the Museum’s annual outdoor creative installations. In keeping with the superhero theme, visitors will travel to Silver Surfer Faerie’s Surfboard Beach Bungalow, Blank Panther Faerie’s Futuristic Utopia, the Woodland Hideaway of Black Widow Faerie, and even Notorious RBG’s Supreme Faerie Court. Artists are selected from across Connecticut and a few from outside the state. Challenged to create their scenes using natural materials, most artists work for months on their creations. “It took me a few weeks to figure out how to intertwine my love of building natural material fairy houses with a superhero theme,” notes Steve Rodgers (yes, that’s right, like Captain America but spelled differently) of Hamden, CT. “I gather most materials that I use while hiking with family and friends. I hope all who see it will be transported into the wonderful, magical world of the fairy realm.”
Exploring The Farmland At The Florence Griswold Museum
At the Florence Griswold Museum in Lyme, Connecticut, art, and farming intersect in interesting ways. Curator Amy Kurtz-Lansing takes us through the museum grounds which was once farmland.
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Cruisin’ Connecticut – Wee Faerie Village Adventure in Old Lyme, CT
Ryan Kristafer becomes the Mayor of Faerieville, USA and talks to some of the over 400 artists who've been hand-crafting faerie-size dwellings at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT.
Buttonwoods Sunflower Farm. Griswold Connecticut
Paseo familiar de domingo 18 de julio a un sembrio de girasoles al noreste de connecticut.
Every year Buttonwoods grows fields of Sunflowers to donate the proceeds to 'Sunflowers for Wishes' - Make a Wish foundation. They also later in the year have .
The Crown Jewel of Point O' Woods - 89 Hillcrest Road, Old Lyme, CT
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Museum sitting on historic battle site
Is it possible the Connecticut River Museum in Essex may be sitting on top of an historic battle site? It's something the state archaeologist and other experts are trying to get to the bottom of.
A Magical Adventure at the Faerie Houses in Old Lyme
Ryan Kristafer takes you on a magical adventure at the Faerie Houses at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT!
Kayaking Lieutenant River to Connecticut River. Visiting the grounds of Griswold Museum. Osprey nest
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CONNECTICUT IMPRESSIONIST ART TRAIL 1995
An intriguing story about Impressionist Art created in the late 1800s-early 1900s by artists from around the state who were all influenced by world-renowned French artists whose work they saw in person. The show also features a variety of other eye-catching pieces created by notable artists.
The now highly regarded and significantly valued collection of works fill a number of the state's finest museums and the program takes the viewer on a tour to show these treasured works and present a fascinating history of the artists who created them.
The program was commissioned to be a standard offering shown to bus tour travelers being shown around Connecticut.
The storyline was developed by Bradford Advertising, motion photography by Joe Fox and editing/post-production by Bruce Manke of Video Imagination, Connecticut.
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Reading Public Museum - American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists' Colony
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The Artist's Garden opens Oct. 3 at #ReynoldaHouse
The Artist’s Garden will tell the story of American Impressionist artists and the growing popularity of gardening as a leisure pursuit at the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on the American Garden Movement of 1887-1920, the exhibition will consider such themes as American artists’ visits to European gardens; the enthusiasm for gardening among women; the urban garden, the artist’s garden, and the garden in winter. Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue will include representations of gardens across the United States and Europe.
Among the artists whose work will be included are some of the most beloved artists in the Reynolda House collection such as William Merritt Chase and Childe Hassam, along with other major American artists not represented at Reynolda, including Cecilia Beaux, Maria Oakey Dewing, Frederick Carl Frieseke, John Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir.
Katharine Smith Reynolds’s creation of the Reynolda estate, with its formal gardens and carefully landscaped grounds, coincides with and reflects the American Garden Movement. Reynolda architect Charles Barton Keen and landscape architect Thomas Sears were both from Philadelphia, the center of the movement. Katharine Reynolds, a woman always up to date, subscribed to a number of influential periodicals that helped spread information about gardening, including Country Life in America and Garden magazine. Her library also contained important gardening books. A complementary exhibition on the gardens and landscape at Reynolda, Reynolda at 100: Reynolda Gardens, will be on view at the same time in the historic house.
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Museum enchanted: attracting audiences through creativity | David Rau | TEDxConnecticutCollege
David Rau speaks on how collaboration resulted in the revitalization of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT. Through the success of Wee Faerie Village, the Florence Griswold Museum has become one of the most critically acclaimed house museums in the world.
David Rau has been the Director of Education & Outreach at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme since 1998. Most recently, Rau played a key role in the reinterpretation of the Griswold House as a boardinghouse for the Lyme Art Colony. Rau has initiated a broad array of new educational programming at the Museum, designed to promote active, experiential and life-long learning opportunities for a diverse audiences.
Rau holds a Master’s degree in the History of Art and a Certificate in Museum Practice from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Rau has held positions at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan; and The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire. He is also an adjunct instructor at Connecticut College where he teaches in the Museum Studies program offering classes on museum education and house museums.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
A Room of Her Own
A Room of her Own (Ballad of Ruth Coxe) This video is part of an exhibition by artist Pola Esther at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT on view September 30, 2017 through January 29, 2018. The exhibition is a portrait of the complex and unconventional activist Ruth Anne Brown Coxe, who died at age 85 in 2015. Coxe was an embattled figure who clashed with others on politics, womanhood, and religion. Contemporary photographer Pola Esther presents a mixed-media portrait of Coxe of in an exhibition of photographs and installation elements.
Born in Lodz, Poland, Esther has exhibited her work in Poland, France, Bulgaria, Germany, and the United States. She studied and worked in theater before taking up photography as her primary means of artistic expression. Building on that background, Esther infuses her images with drama and narrative tension, juxtaposing them in series to build stories. Often in bold, sensuous color, Esther’s photos consider themes of intimacy, human connection, and the feminine, finding echoes between the body and the natural world. Her appreciation for female energy attracted her to Ruth Coxe when the photographer moved to Old Lyme.
Griswold Middle School, Griswold, CT
A graphic rendering of the Griswold Middle School currently under construction in Griswold, CT.
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Gorgeous Light - Griswold Point Preserve, Old Lyme. CT
Some video footage shot on Sunday, November 27, 2011 at The Nature Conservancy's Griswold Point Preserve in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Nice soft light from a painterly sky.
PaletteTree2017
For over ten years, visitors from across the region have admired the painted palettes on Miss Florence’s Artist Trees. The idea of contemporary artists creating paintings on artists' palettes is a nod to the Museum’s history as the center for the Lyme Art Colony, and alludes to the door and wall panels the artists painted throughout Miss Florence’s boardinghouse over a century ago. The palette artists’ styles and subject matter are as varied as the individuals. Oils, acrylics, watercolors, ceramics, glass, and collage are used to transform the palettes into traditional holiday scenes, delightful landscapes, and more than a few surprises!
Nearly 200 noted artists from across the country have donated works to this one-of-a-kind holiday icon. “My first visit to the Florence Griswold Museum was profound and literally changed the course of my work, explains artist Stephanie Marzella from Johns Island, SC. “It was my first awareness of the American tonalist movement. I began to paint what I feel, not what I see. I am forever grateful for the day I walked into that museum. When asked to contribute a palette I was truly honored.”
Artist Denise Flynn, who lives in Great Barrington, MA says, I was born and raised in Connecticut and still retain a great love for my state. After a trip to Old Sturbridge Village as a ten-year-old child, I was completely taken by New England in its early days. I envision that 'my lady' felt very much at home in any Connecticut town in the Victorian era.”
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MH Bancroft Painting Val de Grace American Impressionist Painter in Paris 1890's
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Artist: Milton Herbert Bancroft
Title: Val De Grace Paris - Morning
Size: 12 x 18 - Framed: 18 x 24
Date: circa 1896
Condition: Good, shows some minor restoration (repair in top right corner as seen in photo). No signs of other restoration under UV light.
Framed
Price: $4,800
RARE AND IMPORTANT PAINTING
Suppose you were in the market for a charming French Impressionist painting of a Paris street scene circa 1890's....
Sure, you can buy a decent (and very small) Monet starting around $800K.
But....if you were really smart, you would consider this EXQUISITE JEWEL of a painting by one of Monet's neighbors in Giverny circa 1895 - Milton Herbert Bancroft....
Bancroft was one of the early American Impressionists in Paris during this time, influenced by the circle of John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, and peers such as Guy Rose.
This painting depicts Val De Grace cathedral on a foggy morning in the mid 1890's. This painting really makes you FEEL the atmosphere...transporting us to a very different time and place...
Occasionally you may find a painting by Bancroft come up at auction. However, there are few true comparables to this example. This painting would probably fetch $8,000-10,000 at Christie's or Sotheby's these days (plus 25% buyers premium).
Born in 1867 in Newton, Massachusetts, Milton Bancroft became an Impressionist painter of portraits, landscapes, figures, and murals. He was much influenced by his stay at Giverny, France where he adopted the effects of sun dappled light on figures and landscape that were espoused by Richard Miller, Louis Ritman, Frederick Frieseke, and George Biddle.
He attended Massachusetts Normal Academy School in Boston, and from 1883 to 1886, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1886 to 1892, he taught at Swathmore College and served briefly as Superintendent at the Pennsylvania Academy.
In 1894, he left for Europe and spent five years of intense training in Paris, studying with Louis Giradot and Gustave Courtois at the Colarossi. Returning to the United States, he earned much respect for his talents and was commissioned to do a mural, Court of the Seasons, for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
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David Dearinger, Painting and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design, p. 26
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