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The Griswold House and the Lyme Art Colony were at their most prominent between 1900 and 1920.
During that time, dozens of artists, including many leading figures in the American art world, stayed in the Griswold House or at guesthouses in town.
From its beginnings in 1899, the Lyme Art Colony was shaped by a strongly held group identity. Calling themselves the “School of Lyme,” the first artists who came, at the urging of the colony’s founder Henry Ward Ranger, believed they were forming a new school of painting in America. In the ensuing years, as more artists came and went, the colony’s stylistic focus shifted from Tonalism to Impressionism, but its identity as an artists’ colony held fast and grew in reputation.
1902 — 1920
Artists Exhibiting in Old Lyme
Abrams, Lucien 1915-1920
Adams, Katherine Langhorne 1906, 1912-14
Akin, Louis 1906
Barnes, Ernest H. 1910
Bement, Alon 1911-1912
Bittinger, Charles 1909-1917, 1920
Borgord, Martin 1916, 1918-1919
Browne, Matilda 1911-1917, 1919-1920
Bruestle, George M 1907-1920
Call, Mary E 1917
Chadwick, William 1906-1910, 1916-1920
Church, Frederick S. 1914
Cohen, Louis 1902-1905, 1907, 1909-1915
Crane, Ann 1919-1920
Dawson, Arthur 1902-1904, 1906-1907
Davis, Charles 1903
Dennis, Roger
Dow, Florence M. 1915
DuMond, Frank Vincent 1902-1904, 1906-1915, 1918-1920
DuMond, Helen Savier 1918-1919
Ebert, Charles 1914
Eggleston, Benjamin 1919
Ely, Fanny G. 1918
Ennoyer, Sheldon 1991
Fehrer, Oscar 1918-1919
Foote, Josephine 1913
Foote, Will Howe 1903-1906, 1908-1920
Greacen, Edmund 1911-1917
Griffin, Walter 1902, 1904-1910, 1915-1917
Howe, William Henry 1902-1908, 1910-1920
Hubbard, Platt 1915-1916
Irvine, Wilson 1914-1920
Jacobs, Michel 1920
Koch, Theodor Fritz 1902-1914
Kimball, Alonzo M. 1908
Kretzinger, Clara 1919-1920
Laiblin, A.L. 1907
Langhorne, Katherine 1912-1913
Longacre, Breta 1914-1915
Longacre, Lydia 1911-1915, 1917-1920
Ludington, Katherine 1911
MacDougal, R. Bruce 1908
McKensie, R. Tait 1902
Metcalf, Willard L. 1905-1909, 1911
Minor, Robert 1903
Norman, DaLoria 1919
Olinsky, Ivan G. 1917, 1920
Parker, Lawton 1912, 1919-1920
Ramsdell, Fred W. 1907-1920
Robinson, William S. 1906-1920
Romanovski, Dimitri 1910-1911, 1918-1919
Rook, Edward F. 1904-1915. 1917-1920
Rosseau, Percival L. 1917-1920
Schleffer, Rudolph
Schumacker, Duncan 1907
Selden, Henry Bill
Simmons, Edward 1906
Singer, W.H. Jr. 1907
Smith, Edward G. 1911-1920
Sparks, Arthur 1911-1912
Storrs, Frances Hudson 1916
Swett, W.O. Jr. 1917
Titcombe, Mary Bradish 1913
Tolman, Robert 1915-1920
Tyler, James, H. 1907
Van Veen, Peter 1919
Van Wyck, Matilda Browne (see also Browne) 1918
Vezin, Charles 1907-1914, 1920
Volkert, Edward Charles
Vonnoh, Bessie Potter 1915-1920
Vonnoh, Robert 1915-1920
Walse, Susan M.L. 1916-1917
Wiggins, Henry Carlton 1904-1912, 1914-1920
Wiggins, Guy A. 1920-1938
Wiggins, Guy C. 1902-c. 1920
Wilcox, Lois 1919