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Wilson Henry Irvine and the Poetry of Light By Harold Spencer Softcover: 84 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society (1998) ISBN-10: 1-8808-9718-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-8808-9718-8 Product Size: 0.2 x 10 x 8.5 inches Although Irvine is chiefly remembered as a member of the Lyme Art Colony, much less understood is his prominent role in Chicago art circles prior to his move to Connecticut towards the end of World War I. The research accompanying Wilson Henry Irvine and the Poetry of Light clarifies the contributions of those early years and examines the life and art of Wilson Henry Irvine in the broader context of both regions. Relying on the artist’s diaries, sketchbooks, family correspondence, vital records, archival sources, and periodicals, together with the study of several hundred Irvine paintings, Harold Spencer has done a masterful job piecing together the strands of Irvine’s life and drawing attention to the artist’s considerable talents. This catalogue contains Spencer’s scholarly reexamination of Irvine’s work, 21 color plates, and 30 black and white illustrations. -
Miss Florence and the Artists of Old Lyme By Arthur Heming and illustrated by James Stevenson Hardcover: 96 pages Publisher: Florence Griswold Museum (2022) ISBN-10: 1-8808-9724-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-880897-33-1 Product Size: 0.4 x 8 x 9.6 inches We are pleased to announce the third edition of Miss Florence and the Artists of Old Lyme by Arthur Heming. This updated edition adds 16 pages of text and photos compiled and written by Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing. The new information gives an overview of Miss Florence’s boardinghouse and the period rooms as well as a section on how today’s Florence Griswold Museum connects and celebrates the art, history, and nature of our area. Seven pages are dedicated to contemporary images of the site and highlights from the Museum’s collection. A ten-year veteran of the Lyme Art Colony, Arthur Heming achieved international success as a painter and writer. When he read of Miss Florence’s death in 1937, he chronicled his reminiscences of the Lyme Art Colony and her vanished era. His unpublished manuscript was lost for decades until it was unearthed in a box of old papers at the Griswold House. Heming’s story is a heartwarming recollection of a bygone age: a charming, firsthand account of Miss Florence, her wonderful old home, and the lives of creative artists and distinguished summer visitors such as Childe Hassam and Woodrow Wilson. -
Celebrating the addition of the Museum's 200th palette in 2019. For over fifteen years, visitors from across the region have admired the painted palettes on Miss Florence’s Artist Trees. The idea of contemporary artists creating paintings on artists’ palettes is a nod to the Museum’s history as the center for the Lyme Art Colony, and alludes to the door and wall panels the artists painted throughout Miss Florence’s boardinghouse over a century ago. The palette artists’ styles and subject matter are as varied as the individuals. Oils, acrylics, watercolors, ceramics, glass, and collage are used to transform the palettes into traditional holiday scenes, delightful landscapes, and more than a few surprises! Noted artists from across the country have donated works to this one-of-a-kind holiday icon. -
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. -
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. -
The California Impressionists at Laguna By Jack Becker with an essay by William H. Gerdts Softcover: 40 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society (2000) ISBN-10: 1-8808-9720-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-8808-9720-1 Product Size: 0.1 x 8 x 10.4 inches The California Impressionists at Laguna examines the accomplishments of a group of American painters who were part of an art colony in the coastal community of Laguna Beach, some fifty miles south of Los Angeles. Artists were drawn there by the region’s spectacular scenery, its quality of light, and by a climate that was ideally suited to painting en plein air year-round. Off the beaten track, Laguna was an unspoiled, captivating place that fostered one of the major centers of American Impressionism in the early decades of the 20th century. Some 3,000 miles away, at roughly the same time, another art colony and center of Impressionism flourished in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Woven throughout this exhibition catalogue is the conviction that there is much to be gained by a focused comparison between these two chosen destinations for American artists. Interspersed with 25 color plates and 8 black and white figures, the principal essay explores thematic and stylistic parallels and illustrates how each colony helped to construct an identity for its region that lingers in the imagination today. -
Rum Runners, Governors, Beachcombers & Socialists: Views of the Beaches in Old Lyme By Jim Lampos & Michaelle Pearson Softcover: 88 pages Publisher: Old Lyme Historical Society (2010) ISBN: Product Size: .25 x 9.25 x 9.5 inches Written by Old Lyme residents Jim Lampos and Michaelle Pearson, Rum Runners is an intricately researched, intriguing exploration of the beach communities from Griswold Point in the west to Point O’ Woods in the east. Illustrations include a map of the Old Lyme shoreline, decades-old newspaper clippings and postcards, along with original photographs. -
Henry Ward Ranger and the Humanized Landscape By Jack Becker Softcover: 64 pages Publisher: Lyme Historical Society, Florence Griswold Museum (1999) ISBN: 1-880897-19-9 Product Size: .187 x 10 x 8.5 inches One of Henry Ward Ranger’s principle legacies was his role as the founder of the Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut in 1899. A century later, it seemed especially fitting to organize a retrospective exhibition in the very place where the Colony originated. As a subject for study, Ranger is an extraordinary figure, presenting all the facets of a rough-cut jewel. He was, in equal measure, an American artist who enjoyed extensive success in his day, an entertaining if somewhat obstinate writer, a talented musician, a charismatic leader of other artists, and a tastemaker upon whose opinions major American collectors implicitly relied. Features historic photos of Ranger throughout his life along with 18 black and white images, and 17 full color plates. -
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. -
Thistles & Crowns: The Painted Chests of the Connecticut Shore By Benjamin Colman Softcover: 72 pages Publisher: Florence Griswold Museum (2014) ISBN-13: 978-1-8808-9726-3 Product Size: 0.25 x 9 x 11 inches Published on the occasion of the 2014 exhibition Thistles & Crowns: The Painted Chests of the Connecticut Shore and written by former Florence Griswold Museum Assistant Curator Benjamin Colman, this catalogue provides a permanent scholarly contribution and encourages further study of this tradition in Connecticut’s material culture. Thistles & Crowns: The Painted Chests of the Connecticut Shore presents a new perspective on an important vernacular tradition in New England furniture making. Following his extensive study of the iconography and construction of the chests, and a careful review of the existing published record, archival sources, and regional history, Benjamin Colman argues persuasively that the stories of their creation, decoration, use, and histories are a good deal more complex than previously thought. Embellished with 74 full-color illustrations, the catalogue stands on its own as a significant contribution to the scholarship of American material culture. -
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. -
By Jennifer Stettler Parsons $75.00 Hardcover: 204 pages Publisher: Florence Griswold Museum ISBN-13: 978-1-64657-025-6 This beautifully designed volume explores Sherwood’s multimedia adventures in cross-species communication. The first monograph on Dana Sherwood (born 1977), this book showcases the New York artist’s pioneering experiments with cross-species communication. Her films, sculpture installations and paintings engage discussions around the environment, global food chains, the rapid growth of social media, feminism, animal studies and spirituality. Featuring a tipped-on cover image, metallic embossing and various page sizes and paper stocks, this book expands upon these themes, with essays and documentation of paintings, film stills and recipe and sketchbook facsimiles. Generously illustrated sections of plates are followed by a chronology of the artist’s career to date and a checklist of works. With contributions by Tamar Adler, Amy Kurtz Lansing, Petra Lange-Berndt, Celeste Olalquiaga, Dana Sherwood, Li Sumpter, and Cary Wolfe.
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video detail: Courtney Mattison, Malum Geminos, 2019. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 84 x 250 x 22 in.; Courtney Mattison, Afterglow (Our Changing Seas VI), 2018. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 90.5 x 102 x 19.5 in., Courtesy of the artist; Photograph by Paul Mutino
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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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