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Clark G. Voorhees (1871-1933) By Barbara J. MacAdam Softcover: 32 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society, Florence Griswold Museum (1981) ISBN: 978-1-880897-13-3 Product Size: .187 x 8.5 x 10.5 inches This catalogue was published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the Florence Griswold Museum (June 13 – August 30, 1981). Clark Voorhees felt a close identification both with Old Lyme and its artist community. Clark G. Voorhees (1871-1933) presents a selection of paintings, drawings, and etchings produced during a career that spans approximately forty years. The majority are landscape subjects depicting three areas that the artist loved to paint and among which he sought to divide his time: Old Lyme; Lenox, Massachusetts; and Somerset, Bermuda. Like most American landscapists of this period, Voorhees was strongly influenced by the closely related Barbazon, Tonalist, and Impressionist styles. Features historic photos of Voorhees throughout his life along with 21 black and white images, and 4 full color plates. -
Peter Halley: Big Paintings By Benjamin Colman Softcover: 17 pages Publisher: Florence Griswold Museum (2015) ISBN-10: 1-8808-9727X ISBN-13: 978-1-8808-9727-0 Product Size: 0.25 x 8.5 x 10.6 inches This unique catalogue accompanied the 2015 exhibit Peter Halley: Big Paintings at the Florence Griswold Museum. By looking at a selection of Halley's largest paintings from the span of his career, this publication examines how his distinctive geometric iconography emerged and evolved from the 1980s to the present day. Alongside a critical essay by Benjamin Colman and an excerpt from Halley's seminal essay "On Line" (1985), Big Paintings includes meticulous digital prints of the nine monumental paintings that were included in the exhibition. This catalogue consists of 8 pages softbound with 9 loose full-color digital prints in a die-cut box. -
Childe Hassam in Connecticut By Kathleen M. Burnside Softcover: 32 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society (1987) Product Size: 0.1 x 9 x 11.4 inches Between the late 1890s and the mid 1910s, Childe Hassam produced over 100 paintings, watercolors, pastels, and drawings of Connecticut landscapes. Regarded as the foremost impressionist chronicler of New England, Childe Hassam’s prolific body of work included evocative scenes from his time spent at the Holley House in Cos Cob and the Griswold House in Old Lyme. This catalogue accompanied a 1987 exhibition of Hassam’s work compiled by guest curator Kathleen M. Burnside. In her essay, Burnside presents a biographical timeline of Hassam’s life and work beginning with his 1880s studies of urban Boston and ending with his retirement to East Hampton, Long Island. Burnside also provides a comprehensive analysis of Hassam’s artistic influences, major works, techniques, and impressionist legacy. This catalogue includes 5 color plates and 10 black and white illustrations. -
Edward F. Rook (1870-1960): American Impressionist By Diane Pietrucha Fischer Softcover: 31 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society, Florence Griswold Museum (1987) ISBN: 978-1-880897-14-0 Product Size: .125 x 9.5 x 8.75 inches This publication was printed to correspond with the exhibition of the same name at the Florence Griswold Museum, March 14 through May 24, 1987. This retrospective was the first one to deal fully with the life and Work of Edward F. Rook. Both the catalogue and the exhibition represent all phases of the artist’s varied career, from his Impressionistic Old Lyme Landscapes and Japanese-inspired still lifes to his earlier moonlit scenes of Brittany and richly colored views of Mexico. Features historic photos of Rook throughout his life along with 15 black and white images, and 7 full color plates. -
Rudolph Scheffler (1884-1973) By Peter Hastings Falk Softcover: 48 pages Publisher: Sound View Press (1989) ISBN: 0-932087-06-X Product Size: .187 x 8.5 x 11 inches Accompanying a retrospective exhibition at the Florence Griswold Museum (April 14 – June 4, 1989). Rudolf Scheffler, although largely forgotten today, once had a considerable reputation, both in America and his native Germany, as an architectural muralist and craftsman. After emigrating to this country in 1924, Scheffler established a studio in Brooklyn, New York. For the next twenty years he produced a remarkable variety of murals, mosaics, and works in stained glass for public buildings throughout the United States. Soon after his arrival in the country, Scheffler discovered the artists’ colony at Old Lyme and bought a summer cottage in Lyme. There he enjoyed the freedom of painting a more private world — his luxuriant garden and the surroundings beyond. Features historic photos of Scheffler throughout his life along with 48 color and black and white images. -
Visions of Mood: Pastels of Henry C. White By Amy Kurtz Lansing Softcover: 32 pages Publisher: Florence Griswold Museum (2009) ISBN-13: 978-0-6152-8439-2 Product Size: 0.1 x 10.5 x 8.5 inches This exhibition catalogue explores an important aspect of the career of the American artist Henry Cooke White (1861-1952). While his oil paintings are widely admired by collectors and museums, his accomplishments in pastel are less well known; and yet, they are breathtaking in their variety, intensity of color, and, at times, abstract boldness. Here is a new side of White’s art making, in which he experimented with color and texture while working out-of-doors. Amy Kurtz Lansing has skillfully undertaken not only to select pastel works from among hundreds of examples, but to discern their meaning to the artist’s career. This catalogue features a remembrance by the artist’s grandson, painter Nelson H. White, an essay by the curator, and a portfolio of 21 color illustrations. -
Thomas W. Nason: New England Virtues Aged in Wood By Charles Price Softcover: 61 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society (1993) ISBN: 1-880897-03-02 Product size: .25 x 6 x 9 inches This book was printed in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Florence Griswold Museum from October 1, 1993 through January 16, 1994. It is said that this publication affords the reader the chance to review in a comprehensive manner, the life and career of this important American artist whose exquisitely textured engravings of silos, farmhouses, and rolling pastures convey the poetic essence of the New England Landscape. Features several historic photos of Nason and his studio as well as many illustrations of his engravings. -
Harry L. Hoffman: A World of Color By Jeffrey W. Andersen $14.00 (Softcover) Softcover: 89 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society (1988) Product Size: 0.25 x 8.5 x 10.8 inches $19.00 (Hardcover) Hardcover: 89 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society (1988) Product Size: 0.5 x 8.75 x 11.3 inches Few subjects escaped the attention of Harry Hoffman. His work spans several continents—from landscapes of remote Spanish villages to seasonal views of New England; from market scenes of Savannah, Georgia to the dramatic volcanic terrain of the Galapagos Islands—and reveal a lengthy career of artistic exploration. Hoffman’s unflagging curiosity for varying forms of nature led him in 1916 to begin painting what are perhaps his best-known works—a series of undersea paintings of the coral reefs in the Bahamas. This catalogue accompanied a 1988 exhibition of Hoffman at the Florence Griswold Museum, examining the life and work of an artist noted for his joie de vivre and for his artistic versatility. Alongside the scholarly text are 29 color plates, 40 black and white illustrations, and a unique color frontispiece on vellum. -
A World Observed: The Art of Everett Longley Warner (1877-1963) By Helen K. Fusscas Softcover: 48 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society, Florence Griswold Museum (1992) ISBN: 978-1-880897-10-2 Product Size: .187 x 8.5 x 11 inches This catalogue was published to accompany a traveling exhibition of the same name. It began at the Florence Griswold Museum (June 6 – August 9, 1992), went to Westmoreland Museum of Art (August 30 – October 25, 1992) and ended at the Center Gallery of Bucknell University (November 16, 1992 – January 26, 1993). Everett Longley Warner was an artist whose life was devoted to the exploration of visual phenomena in the broadest possible terms. During his singular career, he not only produced an impressive body of paintings, watercolors, and etchings, but he worked as an art critic; wrote persuasively about the science of perspective and optics as applied to such varied subjects as highway markings and gallery lighting; served his country during both world wars designing naval camouflage; and distinguished himself as a fine teacher. Features historic photos of Warner throughout his life along with 38 black and white images, and 10 full color plates. -
Faces of Change: The Art of Ivan G. Olinsky By Hildegard Cummings Softcover: 32 pages Publisher: William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut Storrs, and Lyme Historical Society, Inc., Florence Griswold Museum (1995) ISBN: 1-880897-05-9 Product Size: .187 x 8.5 x 11 inches This catalogue was published to accompany a traveling exhibition of the same name. It began at the William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut Storrs (June 20 – August 22, 1995), and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum (September 8, 1995 – October 29, 1995). Ivan Olinsky made an impressive entry into the New York art world of the 1910’s. He was not exactly a newcomer, because he had been an assistant to the eminent muralist and stained-glass designer John La Farge (1835-1910), but it was as though he had been invisible all that time. This catalogue focuses on the whole of Olinsky’s solo art career with a special essay dedicated to his work in Venice. Features historic photos of Olinsky throughout his life along with 21 black and white images, and 8 full color plates.
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The Lymes’ Heritage Cookbook Edited by Elizabeth Meriwether Schuler Softcover: 306 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society (1991) Product Size: 0.8 x 6 x 9 inches Old Lyme and Lyme, two towns at the mouth of the Connecticut River, were basically agricultural communities until recent years. In keeping with that tradition, the Lyme Historical Society presents this beautiful and nostalgic cookbook, illustrated with the bucolic works of Thomas Nason (1889-1971), a Lyme resident for more than 30 years. With over 500 recipes and thoroughly indexed for ease of use, this cookbook is a carefully chosen collection of favorite recipes that will appeal to both expert and novice cooks. Emphasis is on New England dishes, some very old, that are adapted to modern tastes, cooking methods, and ingredients. All recipes have been tested and are introduced with a few descriptive words that tell something about the area, its history, people, and the environment. In addition, there are three special chapters on activities that were typical of the area—shad bakes, smoking bluefish, and cooking in beehive ovens. If you like to cook, this book offers enticing, easily followed, accurate recipes and delightful reading about life in the Lymes today and in years gone by.
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In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, FloGris welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.
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