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Current and UpcomingExhibitions

The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887-1920 June 3 - September 18, 2016
An American Place: The Art Colony at Old Lyme Ongoing exhibition in the Florence Griswold House
In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum October 1 – January 29
Matilda Browne: Idylls of Farm and Garden February 10–May 28, 2017
Flora/Fauna: The Naturalist Impulse in American Art June 3 – September 17, 2017

The house gives one a feeling for the artist’s life at the turn-of-the century in a way unlike any museum I’ve visited before. I particularly liked the painted panels scattered throughout the house, most notably in the dining room.

Henry Adams, Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University

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Cooking in Old Lyme: A Woman’s Highest Mission

by Carolyn Wakeman Feature Image: LYME Receipt Book, printed by G. A. Smith Steam Print, Lyme, Conn., 1886. Courtesy Carolyn Wakeman In 1886 a group of Old Lyme neighbors led by Mrs. Rosa Brown Griswold (1849-1907) organized the Neck Road Society to raise funds for community improvement projects. The ladies gathered favorite local recipes and produced […]
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So you see, at first the artists adopted Lyme, then Lyme adopted the artists, and now, today, Lyme and art are synonymous.

Florence Griswold, 1937
I want you to see a little of this beautiful country, where pictures are made – your station is Lyme.

Henry Ward Ranger, 1899
We are up here in another old corner of Connecticut and it is very much like your country. There are some very large oaks and chestnuts and many fine hedges. Lyme, or Old Lyme as it is usually called, is at the mouth of the Connecticut River and it really is a pretty fine old town.

Childe Hassam, 1903
The variety in the landscape would drive an artist to distraction. It is a singular mixture of the wild and the tame, of the austere and the cheerful.

A Visitor to Lyme, 1876
It looks like Barbizon, the land of Millet. See the knarled [sic] oaks, the low rolling country. This land has been farmed and cultivated by men, and then allowed to revert back into the arms of mother nature. It is only waiting to be painted.

Henry Ward Ranger, 1900

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