Old Lyme

This summer I took a trip to the old Lyme are colony and the Florence Griswold House.   I wish that there was some places like this that still survive.  Rome and board was only a dollar day!  These communities helped artist development as they went out and painted together.  Childe Hassam and Willard Metcalf were two of my favorites from the group.  "May Night" by Metcalf is a haunting picture.  I love nocturnes and am always surprised when I see them as if the American Impressionist were not "allowed" to paint so dark. 

Willard Metcalf painted 26 paintings there   In one year.  The subtle harmonies are reminiscent of my favorite Tonalist painters George Inness and James McNeil Whistler.

I was in Old Lyme showing a few Central Park paintings at the Old Lyme Art Association.  This was one of the first in the country.  Incorporated in 1914 but artists began showing at the Library in 1902. 

Below are a few panels from the Florence 

Griswold House.  My Aunt Bonnie MacAdam used to work here before she went to the Hood museum in Hanover. NH. 

Traveling Artist Studio

Artist Dash

Florence Griswold House

Door Painting

I had a few paintings showing at the Art association next door.  

Central Park Terrace

38x34

Oil on panel