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The Artist in the Connecticut Landscape October 2, 2015–January 31, 2016 Annual Report Issue SUMMER 2015 A Special Invitation to Florence Griswold Museum Members Please join us for the 69th Annual Meeting and the Members’ Reception for the Opening of All the Sea Knows: Marine Art from the Museum of the City of New York. Friday, June 5, 2015 at 5:30pm and trustees. At 6:30pm, we’ll enjoy Florence Griswold Museum a festive reception for the opening of 96 Lyme Street All the Sea Knows: Marine Art from the Museum of the City of New York. Old Lyme, Connecticut The 69th Annual Meeting of the This is your invitation to the Florence Griswold Museum takes place Members’ Reception. We hope on Friday, June 5, 2015 at 5:30pm under you can join us. Kindly RSVP a tent on the Adrian P. Moore Garden (acceptances only) to 860-434-5542 Terrace. We will share brief reports on ext. 122 or [email protected]. the activities of the Museum and invite James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894), Yacht Race off Fort Wadsworth, ca. 1870. Oil on board, 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 members to elect a new slate of officers inches. Museum of the City of New York All the Sea Knows–a New Exhibition BEFORE MISS FLORENCE Sea Knows reveals the diverse ways the helped introduce the world to American sea has been depicted in American art Impressionism, her father, Captain and its connections to the Connecticut Robert Griswold, made his mark as a shore. A special gallery will unite, for respected sea captain. For 25 years he the first time, paintings from MCNY’s sailed the Atlantic between New York collection with selections from the and London on packet ships of the Black Museum’s collection that depict ships X Line. This summer the Museum of the Black X Line. In addition, letters honors Connecticut’s contributions to Captain Griswold from his wife are to the history of maritime travel and being transcribed and will be the basis trade with the exhibition, All the Sea for an online theatrical presentation that Knows: Marine Art from the Museum will provide insight into the lives of sea Edward Moran (1829–1901), Enlightening the World, (The Unveiling of the Statue of Liberty), of the City of New York. On view June captains and those left behind, as well as 1886. Oil on canvas, 49 1/2 x 39 inches. 5 through September 20, 2015, All the how the shipping industry affected the Museum of the City of New York continued on page 7 Collection Spotlight: On the River by Willard Metcalf IN 1883, Willard Metcalf Metcalf’s embrace of the joined the ranks of American Barbizon style while in France, artists who traveled to France and the prominence he gives to further their education. to the figure recalls both He spent five years abroad, Metcalf’s travels to Brittany studying in Paris at the and the work of Jules Bastien- Académie Julian and visiting Lepage, whose depictions art colonies at Pont-Aven, of peasants brought a new on the Brittany Coast, naturalism to French art in the Walberswick, England, and 1870s and 1880s. At the same Grez-sur-Loing near Barbizon time, On the River reveals in the summers. In May 1885, Metcalf’s gradual transition as documented by bird eggs he toward Impressionism in collected while there, Metcalf Monet-like passages such as became the first American the blue-green leaves of the artist to spend time in Giverny, tree isolated against the sky the French town not far from in the background. On the Paris that would become home On the River makes its debut in the Florence Griswold House this summer. River provides a foundation to a large art colony attracted by for better understanding the presence of Claude Monet. While Monet largely ignored Dogwood Blossoms, 1906, a picture the artist completed in the community of expatriate painters, Metcalf managed Old Lyme, but which is redolent of his paintings of French to make his acquaintance and even tutored the artist’s son peasants. The nascent Impressionism of On the River burst and stepson in botany and ornithology. Metcalf returned to forth fully in Old Lyme pictures such as Kalmia, 1905, Giverny for the next two summers, and painted On the River, where the proportions have now been reversed—the smooth ca. 1888. brushwork and Barbizon tones of On the River recede into 2 The Florence Griswold Museum is home to the largest the background in Kalmia, making way for a flurry of public collection of works by Willard Metcalf, but until Impressionist brushwork and dazzling light effects. On the now, this has not included any paintings the artist made in River represents a key bridge between Metcalf’s earliest France. In late 2014, the Museum acquired On the River, artistic efforts in Boston and New York and his maturation which depicts a fisherman preparing a trap aboard a boat as an American Impressionist, a process completed over the on a small waterway—possible the Epte or the Ru—in or course of his visits to the Lyme Art Colony. around Giverny. The painting’s rich color palette reflects —Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator Heartfelt Letters Reveal Private Lives THIS SUMMER, visitors to All the Sea Knows: Marine while he was away at sea much of the year as a captain in Art from the Museum of the City of New York will have the trans-Atlantic packet ship trade between New York and access to rarely-seen correspondence exchanged by Helen London. Sample letters will be included in the exhibition, Powers and Captain Robert and the full correspondence, Harper Griswold, Florence with selected annotations, will Griswold’s parents. The “. dearest, you say you hope on your be featured on the Museum’s Museum owns nearly website. The letters provide twenty letters, and a private return to find me well, and happy, insight into the keenly-felt collection in Old Saybrook separations and challenges of holds an equal number, happy I shall certainly be dear, at least family life for the Griswolds, allowing us to reconstruct while on opposite sides of the the communications between when I see you . .” ocean. Florence’s mother and father — Excerpt from a letter addressed to Captain Robert Griswold, Astor House, New York, October 22, 1840 from Helen Powers A Celebration of the Gardens at the Museum June 5 to 14, 2015 Two Sought-After Garden Experts to Speak HERE ARE JUST a few of the exciting lineup On June 9, author and self- of garden-related activities scheduled. Please check described obsessed gardener FlorenceGriswoldMuseum.org for a complete list. Tovah Martin presents an interactive lecture that Blooms with a View: A Display of Art & Flowers explores how to infuse your June 12, 13, and 14 garden and personal space with personality, panache, See what this year’s talented floral designers create in response and punch while searching for to works of art in the special exhibition All the Sea Knows: a deeper individuality. The Marine Art from the Museum of the City of New York. Their lecture finale is a terrarium stunning arrangements play off the colors, line, shapes, and planting demonstration. A subject matter of the artwork in masterful ways, becoming book signing of Martin’s masterpieces of their own. Boats and botanicals make for an recent publications concludes intriguing combination! the event. On June 11, author and Master Gardener Amy Ziffer gives a beautifully-illustrated talk that focuses on what makes some shade plants better performers than others. A book signing of Ziffer’s The 3 Shady Lady’s Guide to Northeast Shade Gardening concludes the event. Both presentations begin at 2pm and require advance registration, either online or by calling 860-434-5542, x111. This Year’s Annual Garden Luncheon Supports the Preservation of the Museum’s Landscape Friday, June 12 at noon Landscape Committee chair Dianne Embree and her committee have planned a delightful afternoon of art, music, flowers, food … and a few surprises! This year’s luncheon theme celebrates the beauty of the Museum’s riverfront landscape and the debut of On the River, the newly acquired Willard Metcalf painting. Guests will enjoy Blooms with a View in the Krieble Gallery, an informal tour of Miss Florence’s historic gardens by the Museum’s own Garden Gang, light jazz by the Tangerine Trio, and a delicious lunch by Gourmet Galley under a festive tent on the Adrian P. Moore Garden Terrace. There will be brief remarks by curator Amy Kurtz Lansing on the significance of the Museum’s exciting new acquisition On the River by Willard Metcalf. Tickets for this popular event are $100. For reservations please go to FlorenceGriswoldMuseum.org or contact Sarah at 860-434-5542 ext. 122 or [email protected]. The Garden Luncheon, sponsored by Wilber & King and Centerbrook Architects and Planners, is an important fundraiser that supports the stewardship and preservation of the Museum’s historic gardens and riverside landscape. Members are cordially invited to join us at the Garden Luncheon! Thurston the Great of Lyme The Museum lost one of its legendary figures when former board president Tony Thurston died in his sleep on February 20, 2015 at the age of 77. Director Jeffrey Andersen gave the following tribute at Tony’s memorial service. IN THE EARLY YEARS of the Kramden in “The Honeymooners,” 20th century the most famous flapping around, hysterically funny. magician in America was Howard Unlike Jackie Gleason, however, Thurston, who went by the stage Tony’s histrionics always had a purpose name of Thurston the Great. Howard and I saw how he used it to liven a Thurston was raised in Ohio, lived a somnambulant committee or board life of adventure, and was so widely meeting, to snap everyone to attention known for his ability to influence in order to make a decision and stick people that Dale Carnegie wrote with it.
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