Documents: Holiday Greetings from Old Lyme’s Artists
Documents: Holiday Greetings from Old Lyme’s Artists by [...]
Documents: Holiday Greetings from Old Lyme’s Artists by [...]
Exhibition Note: Matilda Browne’s Historic Lyme Street House, Part [...]
Old Lyme’s artists often chose nocturnal scenes for the original drawings and etchings they sent as holiday cards. See a selection of these greetings sending holiday cheer.
When local artists exchanged holiday cards, they often sent original etchings or woodblock prints of the surrounding landscape, or lithographic reproductions of their paintings.
When Lyme artists sent holiday cards to relatives and friends, they often shared original watercolors, drawings, lithographs, and woodblock prints.