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AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM
Shortly after the French painters abandoned the rigidity of history painting
to render their fleeting impressions of daily life, American painters
left the teeming industrial centers of America to capture the qualities
of rural life which they felt were waning at the opening of the 20th century.
These publications are part of the Museum’s ongoing commitment to
explore themes relating to the American Impressionist movement.
Please
call 860-434-5542 x 111 to place an order or make inquires.
Title |
Description |
Price |
Miss Florence and the Artists of Old Lyme |
Arthur Heming. First person reminiscences by artist Arthur Heming of the early days of the Lyme Art Colony. Full of humorous anecdotes and lively details. 62 pages with color frontispiece, 28 b/w plates, and 9 b/w illustrations by the New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson. 1971.
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$19.95 |
The
American Artist in Connecticut:
The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection |
Jeffrey
W. Andersen and Hildegard Cummings. This 143-page catalogue includes
an essay on the history of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection and
51 color plates with notes on each of the artists. A final section
of this volume displays half-tones of every work in this Collection
recently donated in its entirety to the Florence Griswold Museum.
2002.
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$29.95
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The
California Impressionists at Laguna |
Jack Becker with an essay by William Gerdts. This exhibition catalogue
includes an essay examining the elements that came together to create
the numerous art colonies in America
and an essay comparing the art colonies at Laguna Beach, California
and at Old Lyme, Connecticut which were founded on separate coasts
in the same year. 40 pages, 24 color and 8 half tones.2000. |
$15.95 |
Connecticut
and American Impressionism |
Pamphlet
with 9 color and 8 b/w illustrations. Includes a listing of sites
throughout Connecticut associated with this movement. 1980. |
$3.00 |
The
Connecticut Impressionists at Old Lyme |
Portfolio
of twelve reproductions from the Museum’s collection. Size 11
x 14”. Ready for framing. 1982.
|
$12.95 |
Connecticut
Masters |
Connecticut
Masters provides a complete look at the exceptional collection of
Connecticut art and furniture that was amassed by the Hartford Steam
Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company. This 271-page hardcover volume
features a color plate on nearly every page.
|
$65.00 |
Lines
of Thought: American Works on Paper from a Private Collection |
Essay
by Charles Price, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Connecticut
College. A catalogue of an exhibition from the private collection
of some fifty rarely seen watercolors, pastels, and drawings by American
artists working in the realist tradition from the 1850s to the present
day. 48 pages, 29 color plates and 8 b/w plates. 1997.
|
$18.00 |
A Noble Tradition: American Painting from the National Arts Club |
Carol Lowrey. Catalogue from an exhibition of important early 20th century paintings rarely seen outside the opulent National Arts Club, New York City. Painters include Robert Henri, Ernest Blumenschein, William McGregor Paxton and Old Lyme artists such as Guy Wiggins and Frank Bicknell. 1995. |
$14.00 |
THE
LYME ART COLONY
In 1899, Henry Ward Ranger discovered Lyme. When traveling through this
historic village on a train, he exclaimed that this was a place “just
waiting to be painted.” He found the boarding house of Miss Florence
Griswold, spread the word among his artist friends, and soon they were
producing luminous paintings of white clapboard buildings, meandering
marshes, and rocky meadows. And so began the Lyme Art Colony. These publications,
in many cases the only monographic study available on a featured artist,
tell the story of those artists who found their inspiration in Lyme.
Title |
Description |
Price |
Bruce
Crane: American Tonalist |
Charles
Clark and Mary Muir. Exhibition catalogue examining the life and work
of this artist whose tonal and Impressionist paintings are much admired
by collectors of American Art. 31 pages, 10 color and 19 b/w illustrations.
1984.
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$10.00 |
The
Harmony of Nature: The Art and Life of Frank Vincent DuMond
1865-1951 |
A
catalogue exploring DuMond’s role as a dean of American art education
and as a painter. Accompanied the first comprehensive display of the
artist’s work and includes two essays, one by Jeffrey W. Andersen
and one by Charles B. Ferguson.
32 pages, 8 color and 26 b/w reproductions. 1990.
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$10.00 |
Childe
Hassam in Connecticut |
Kathleen
M. Burnside. Catalogue from a statewide exhibition displaying the
work of Childe Hassam produced at the Holley House in Cos Cob. 32
pages, 5 color and 10 b/w illustrations. 1987.
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$10.00 |
Harry
L. Hoffman: A World of Color |
Jeffrey
W. Andersen. A book examining the life and work of an artist noted
for his joie de vivre and for his versatility as an artist from winter
views of New England to undersea paintings of the Bahamas. 89 pages,
29 color & 40 b/w illustrations with unique color frontispiece
on vellum. 1988.
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$14.00
Softcover
$19.00
Hardcover
|
Wilson
Irvine and the Poetry of Light |
Exhibition
catalogue with essay by Professor Harold Spencer and many color illustrations
from this major retrospective and reexamination of the work of Wilson
Henry Irvine. Emphasis is placed on his years as a member of the Lyme
Art Colony and on his paintings made abroad, his years in Illinois
and his prismatic paintings and aquaprints. 1998.
|
$19.95 |
May Night:
Willard Metcalf at Old Lyme |
This 144-page soft cover catalogue includes essays by Dr. Bruce W. Chambers, the Director of the Willard L. Metcalf Catalogue Raisonne Project, and by the Museum’s former Curator, Amy Ellis. Catalogue entries by the Museum’s recently appointed Curator of American Art, Dr. Emily M. Florentino, focus on Metcalf’s Old Lyme pictures. May Night offers new scholarship that re-evaluates Metcalf’s place in the history of American Art. Produced to accompany the exhibition, May Night: Willard Metcalf at Old Lyme |
$29.95 |
Thomas
W. Nason: New England
Virtues Aged in Wood |
Charles
Price. 61-page catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the pastoral,
copper wood engravings of Thomas Willoughby Nason, one of America’s
foremost printmakers during the 1930s and 1940s. The Griswold
Museum owns an extensive collection of Nason’s art and the contents
of his studio. 1993.
|
$13.95 |
Faces
of Change: The Art of Ivan G. Olinsky (1878-1962) |
This
is a 32-page catalogue from the exhibition seen at the William Benton
Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut at Storrs and at the
Florence Griswold Museum. The catalogue features the figurative work
for which Olinsky was noted as well as several of his luminous Venetian
scenes. 9 color plates and 21 b/w illustrations.
|
$14.00 |
Henry
Ward Ranger and the Humanized
Landscape |
64-page
catalogue from a retrospective exhibition honoring the colony’s
founder. Ranger was one of the nation’s leading landscape painters
and an active participant in the emerging art world of turn-of-the-century
New York. Included are essays by former Griswold Museum curator
Jack Becker and by conservators Lance Mayer and Gay Myers about
the techniques used by Ranger. 16 color plates and 19 b/w illustrations.
1999. |
$19.95 |
Edward
F. Rook (1870-1960) American
Impressionist |
Diane
Fischer. Catalogue from first retrospective exhibition examining the
artist’s highly individual paintings and eccentric personality. 31 pages, 7 color and 16 b/w illustrations. 1987. |
$10.00 |
Vonnoh,
Fehrer and Higgins: Three Artists
of Pleasant Valley |
7-page,
multi-fold, guide to the exhibition of the work of Robert Vonnoh,
Oscar Fehrer, and Eugene Higgins. Contains biographical notes, maps,
and photos. 1991. |
$3.00 |
A
World Observed: The Art of Everett Longley Warner (1877-1963) |
Helen Fusscas. Fully illustrated, 48-page catalogue from the traveling
retrospective of the work of Everett Warner. Warner painted and etched
in New York and Old Lyme, and his work is represented in numerous
museum collections including the Griswold. 1992. |
$14.00 |
The
Whites of Waterford: An American
Landscape Tradition |
Tri-fold
portfolio with 3 color plates and biographical notes on three generations,
Henry C., Nelson C., and Nelson H. White. 1985. |
$6.00 |
Lyme's Heritage Series
From time to time, the Museum publishes books pertaining to the heritage
of the Lyme region. These books are an invaluable record of the region’s
unique “sense of place.”
Title |
Description |
Price |
Hamburg
Cove: Past and Present |
A
168-page book illustrated with maps, historical photos and an 8-page
color insert on the art of Hamburg Cove. Multiple authors explore
subjects including local families, boating traditions, flora and fauna,
and the artists of Hamburg Cove. 1993. |
$16.95 |
The
Lieutenant River |
Susan
H. Ely and Elizabeth B. Plimpton. 71-page book telling the history
of the tributary of the Connecticut River that bordered the Griswold
property and was for many years the center of the agricultural, industrial,
and residential life of Old Lyme. Includes text, maps, and historical
photos. 1991. |
$10.95 |
Lymes’
Heritage Cookbook |
305-page
book with more than 500 recipes by the area’s best cooks and
chefs from well-known inns. Also special sections on bee-hive oven
cooking, shad baking, and more. Illustrated with wood engravings by
Thomas Nason. 1991. |
$14.95 |
AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST
POSTERS
The Museum Shop offers these fine art posters and reproductions for sale
unframed.
Title |
Description |
Price |
Color,
Light & Atmosphere |
by
Charles Ebert |
$10.00 |
Goldfish
Window |
by
Childe Hassam |
$15.00 |
Portrait
of a Man |
by
Harlan Page |
$25.00 |
Savannah
Market |
by
Harry Hoffman |
$25.00 |
Summer Evening |
by Childe Hassam |
$15.00 |
Wilson
Irvine and the Poetry of Light |
|
$15.00
|
The
Front Hall |
by
William Verplank Birney |
$15.00 |
The
Ocean Queen |
Samuel
Walters |
$15.00
|
Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail |
|
$25.00 |
Visions of Home |
|
$15.00 |
BOXED
CARDS
Set of 20 boxed notecards by Pomegranate |
Five each of four images published by Pomegranate, these boxed notecards offer two selections from the Lyme Art Colony Collection and two from the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection. They express that unique sense of place that lay at the heart of the work of the artists of the Lyme Art Colony. The artists represented are Childe Hassam, Charles H. Davis, William Robinson and Willard Metcalf.
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$14.95 |
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