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The Florence Griswold Museum is an art museum at 96 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, Connecticut centered on the home of Florence Griswold (1850-1937), which was the center of the Old Lyme Art Colony, the main center of development of American Impressionism. The museum is noted for its collection of American Impressionist paintings. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993. ==Museum== The Museum's Robert and Nancy Krible Gallery, featuring of exhibit space and sweeping views of the Lieutenant River opened in 2002.〔The Griswold Celebrates New Space and New Art , William Zimmer, June 30, 2002, New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900EEDB143EF933A05755C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all〕 In 2001, the Museum acquired the corporate collection of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, once the world's largest insurer against equipment breakdown. The collection included 157 oil paintings, 31 works on paper and 2 works of sculpture, all Connecticut-related.〔 Collection highlights: * ''Portrait of a Man'' by Harlan Page (1815) * ''The Charter Oak at Hartford'' by Frederic Church in 1946 * ''Shore of Darien, Connecticut'' John F. Kensett (1872) * ''View of Greenwich, Connecticut'' David Johnson (1878) * ''The Fisher Boy'' (1840) by Edwin White * ''Black Bass'' (1872) by Gordon Trumbull * ''East Rock, New Haven'' John Ferguson Wier 1901 * ''East Hartford Meadow'' Milton Avery (1922) * ''Summer Evening,'' (1886) a ''Woman at the window'' Childe Hassam * ''Laurel,'' Edward F. Rook 1905-1910 Works by Emil Carlsen, Charles Ebert, Bruce Crane and Willard Metcalf. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florence Griswold Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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