Just like the original artists of the Lyme Art Colony, participants are invited to walk from the Museum to the site of the Barbizon Oak, a famed tree in the Champlain Farm North property, maintained by the Town of Old Lyme.

The ephemeral quality of natural specimens and taxidermy is at odds with the museum conservator’s work towards preserving collections that are historically, scientifically, and artistically important.

Museum Class: Blencowe inspires her students in the art of keeping a visual journal. Students will capture small moments of nature in a big way.

Museum Class: Blencowe inspires her students in the art of keeping a visual journal. Students will capture small moments of nature in a big way.

This talk explores artists' pursuit of butterflies and their experimentations with representation from the early 19th century to today.

Jenny Parsons, Assistant Curator Come hear Parsons discuss how artists like William Trost Richards and Fidelia Bridges were inspired by British critic John Ruskin to create landscapes, still lifes, and studies based on their meticulous observation of nature en plein air. Painting: Fidelia Bridges (1834–1923), Wild Roses Among Rye, 1874, Watercolor and gouache over pencil on heavy wove paper, 13 ½ x 9 in., Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company