HARP ILLUSTRATED: FLORENCE GRISWOLD WITH J PITT LEWIS & CO PEDAL HARP

 Alphonse Jongers (1872-1945)
The Harpist, 1903
Oil on canvas. Gift of the Lyme Art Association

During the first two decades of the 20th century, the village of Old Lyme, Connecticut, was the setting for one of the largest and most significant art colonies in America. Centered in the boardinghouse of Miss Florence Griswold, the colony attracted many leading artists -- Henry Ward Ranger, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf and others, who were in the vanguard of the Tonalist and Impressionist movements in America. Its identity as an artists’ colony held fast and grew in reputation. The constant behind this was the central figure of Florence Griswold (1850-1937), affectionately referred to as “Miss Florence”.

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