Top of the Hill, c. 1906
Oil on academy board
Florence Griswold Museum 1980.1

This work was painted across the road from DuMond’s summer home on Grassy Hill in Lyme. DuMond expressed his affection for the area in a 1907 interview in The New York Sun: “Every year I grow more deeply attached to my summer place and less inclined to leave it.

All of us who are associated with the Lyme colony I think have the same feeling, and our summer term has every season a more and more elastic limit.”