So long as I was nearby, just off the Connecticut River, I visited Florence Griswold's house. She inherited her house in Old Lyme from her sea captain father. Ms. Griswold converted it into a boarding house.
In 1899 the artist Henry Ward Ranger rented a room. The next year more of Ranger's artist friends came for the summer. For more than a decade, artists like Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, John Henry Twachtman and J. Alden Weir stayed with Ms. Griswold and formed the Lyme Art Colony.
Many of the artists painted panels in Ms. Griswold's kitchen and dining room.
Willard Metcalf painted the Captain Lord mansion in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1920.
Wow, how wonderful that this house became the center of an artist colony. How good of them to decorate panels with their paintings. This house must be a museum now.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful place, Jack.
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