ARTalk with Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing, Florence Griswold Museum

The Artist Colony at Old Lyme with Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT. Sunday, March 16, 2025 @ 2 PM | Main Program Room

Join Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing of the Florence Griswold Museum for a presentation about the Tonalist and American Impressionist painters who formed an artists’ colony centered around Miss Florence Griswold’s boardinghouse in Old Lyme, CT beginning in 1900. Learn about the colony’s leading artists, including Childe Hassam and Willard Metcalf, as well as about its resilient matron, Florence Griswold. Together, they created a community that nurtured artistic expression in a historic riverside setting beautified by lush gardens. Kurtz Lansing will highlight examples from the museum’s esteemed collection of impressionist paintings and discuss ongoing research being conducted about the Lyme Art Colony which updates our understanding of this key group of American artists, their work and interactions.