Griswold Museum

1. Please provide basic information on the museum:

Name: Florence Griswold Museum

Location: 96 Lyme St, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Hours of Operation:

Tuesday - Saturday, 10-5

and Sunday, 1-5

Ticket cost:

$10 Adults

$9 Seniors

$8 Students

Free to visitors 12 and under

Website: www.flogris.org

2. Describe the ‘program’—the focus of the museum: Home of American Impressionism

What is the general style of art in the museum?

There is a fairly new building that houses an orientation room and several galleries used primarily for traveling exhibitions. The main Griswold House, which was a boarding house for the early 20the century Old Lyme art colony, was built in 1818 an contains the works of a majority of the artists that comprised of the colony throught the years. The grounds are absolutely beautiful, right on the Lieutenant River. The vast majority of the pieces on display were paintings; oil on canvas or lithographs on board. In the dining room of the main house there are thirty-eight paintings by thirty-three different artists on painted wooden panels as part of the walls as decorative art in honor of Ms. Griswold. The collage of panels represent several differing art styles including not only the impressioniststs, but romanticism, portraits, symbolism and even and iconic, comedic mural just under the mantel of the fireplace of twenty four of the colonies artist involved in a fox chase. Done because there were three prints of a hunt already in the dining room and they wanted their own work depicting the same.

2.1 Are there any collections that do not seem to contribute to the overall effect of the museum?

None. The works in the house were all Impressionist. The main gallery held a collection by a Canadian painter, Arthur Hemming.

3. Select and describe two works.

Arthur Henry Howard Hemming

Born January 17, 1870, Paris, Ontario, Canada

Died October 30, 1940, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

In Old Lyme, summers, 1902-1910

Heming is one of...