Glimpse: A Look at the Lyme Art Association
Glimpse: A Look at the Lyme Art Association [...]
Photographs: Setting the Holiday Table
Photographs: Setting the Holiday Table by Carolyn Wakeman [...]
Cooking in Old Lyme: A Woman’s Highest Mission
by Carolyn Wakeman Feature Image: Lyme Receipt Book, printed by G. [...]
Exhibition Note: Lyme Artists and the Changing Landscape at Ferry Point
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image (above): Ellen Noyes Chadwick, View of [...]
Documents: Sketches in an Autograph Book
Midway through Rev. William B. Cary’s leather-bound autograph book, Florence Griswold (1850–1937) and her sisters inscribed their names. They also contributed finely detailed sketches displaying their varied musical and artistic talents.
Old Lyme Women Oppose Suffrage
Women in Old Lyme debated the merits of granting women the right to vote. Read more to learn about a Connecticut town's role in suffrage, anti-suffrage, and the ratification of the nineteenth amendment.
A “Little Scene” from Miss Florence
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured photo, above: Florence Griswold, "Moonlight." Postcard [...]
Exhibition Note: The Celebrated Gardens of Lyme Artists
In the cultivated wildness of their flower gardens, local artists showcased their delight in color, pattern, and form. According to The Hartford Courant in 1931, Lucian Abrams, whose paintings are lavishly displayed in the Florence Griswold Museum’s spring exhibition A Cosmopolitan in Connecticut, was one of several Lyme painters known as much “for their wonderful flowers and the studied care of their houses and grounds as for their pictures.”
Documents: Griswold Home School, Part I–Beginnings
Although Florence Griswold’s unique role in the history of American art has been well documented, we have known surprisingly little about her life as head of the Griswold Home School, an educational institution which preceded the arrival of her artist boarders and occupied the four women of the Griswold family for fourteen years from 1878 to 1892. But by tracking newly uncovered historical sources, we now know much more about the workings of the school and about Florence Griswold in her position of school administrator.
Exhibition Notes: Needlework and the Education of Girls
by Caroline Fraser Zinsser, Ph.D. Introduction This paper will address [...]
