Florence Griswold Museum : Home of American Impressionism. Visit where the Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme Connecticut once lived.

On Loan

Two works from the Florence Griswold Museum's permanent collection are part of the exhibition Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from March 2-July 15, 2012

Willard Leroy Metcalf, Fiesole, 1913

Oil on panel; 10 x 15 cm

Gift of Mrs Henriette Metcalf

Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Jessie Wilson (Mrs. Francis B. Sayre), 1912-1913

Bronze; 40.6 x 15.5 x 19.7 (diameter base) cm

Two other works will be part of the exhibition The Weir Family: 1820-1920 that will open at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art on November 11, 2011 and remain on view through May 19, 2012. The exhibition travels to the New Britain Museum of American art from June 30-September 30, 2012 and then to the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, from October 20, 2012-January 20, 2013.

John Ferguson Weir, Beach at Easthampton, ca. 1875. Oil on canvas, 20 3/8 x 33 1/2 in.

Gift of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company

John Ferguson Weir, East Rock, New Haven, ca. 1901.Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 44 1/2 in.

Gift of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company

Past Exhibition Loans

Two other works from the Museum's permanent collection were part of the exhibition The American Impressionists in the Garden at the Taft Museum in Cincinnati from February 18 to May 15, 2011.

Frank Vincent DuMond, Garden Path, 1897. Oil on canvas, 19 x 29 inches.

Gift of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company

Matilda Browne, In Voorhees's Garden, 1914. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches.

Gift of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company