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The NEW ENGLANDHistoricalCONNECTIONPlease stop by our store and see our large selection of period chandeliers sconces. In most cases we will install the chandelier or sconce whether you buy it off the floor or order one.The Sour 11 b or Handcrafted A merit dm Furniture A nd Accessories300 Danburv Road Rt. 7 Wilton CT 06897203.761.8646ANTIQUESCLASSIC FURNISHINGSGIFTS35 Post Road West Westport, CT 06880 (203) 222-8212 Mon. - Fri. 9-5, Sat. 10-5RETRACING STEPSMacRae lived in the House from 1900 until his death in 1953.Photo courtesy of The HistoricalSociety of the Town of Greenwich.the gardening and homemak-ing skills of the Holleys.Childe Hassam was a regular visitor to the house for three decades. Theodore Robinson visited the area between 1892 and 1895, creating some of his finest works there before his untimely death in 1896. Others who came to paint included Ernest Lawson, Emil Carlsen, Henry Fitch Taylor and young artist Elmer Livingston MacRae, who would fall in love with innkeeper Holley’s daughter, Emma Constant, and would live in the house with Emma until his death in 1953. Many celebrated Impressionist paintings, including two of Childe Hassam’s works now residing at the State Department, are of the Bush-Holley House.In 1957, the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich purchased Bush-Holley and restored it. Today Elmer Mac-Rae’s upstairs studio has been recreated using archival photographs for reference. In 1991 the house was a designated a National Historic Landmark as possibly the first Impressionist art colony in America. Currently HSTG is restoring the c. 1805 storehouse next door which served as the Cos Cob post office at the time the artists were boarding.The Florence Griswold MuseumHome of the famous Lyme art colony, this area of coastal Connecticut was first described by colony founder Henry Ward Ranger as a setting “only waiting to be painted.” And so the artists did. congregating at “Miss Florence’s” boarding house, an 1817 Late Georgian mansion designed by Samuel Belcher. Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Will Howe Foote, Matilda Browne and Charles Ebert were regular visitors, part of what came to be known as “the Barbizon of America.”Today the Florence Griswold Museum has six landscaped acres, beautiful gardens and the recently restored studio of artist W illiam Chadwick, and in this setting, Ranger’s words still ring true. All of the artists who painted here are well represented in the museum’s permanent collection. In addition to historic period settings, visitors won’t want to miss the famed dining room, lined with over thirty panels painted by the boarding artists.The Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail can he enjoyed by several different itineraries. For information on the Art Trail, accommodations and restaurants, call the Coastal Fairfield County Convention Visitor Bureau, 1-800-866-7925.ANNE CORPERContinued from page 13 the onlv one dedicated to a-Sfpr..':painter. Today, visitors can enjoy self-guided tours to see many of the same enchanting vistas painted by Weir and his friends.doors, t 'erandas upstairs and doum. ot'erlooks the Mianus... This is the comer of Coscob (sic) set apart for Mr. Tult;achtman s Summer School. Here the art student vigorously wields the paint brush or lazily dreams in a hammock under the apple trees ..As we row in at night from the Riverside Yacht Club the old house with its gailyCOUNTRY ANTIQUESinvites you to view our new shipment of English, Irish and Continental pine furniture and accessories in our Stamford, Connecticut Warehouse.lighted paper lanterns looksalmost Japanese. Thus read the article about the Holley House in The Art Interchange in September 1899A teacher at the Art Students League, John Henry Twacht-man established his summer art classes soon after he bought a farm in Greenwich in 1890. Students painted at the Holley family’s boarding house which overlooked the Lower Landing of the Mianus River. Originally owned by the wealthy landowner David Bush, the “Old House, retained much of its Colonial charm while benefitting fromThe Bush-Holley Housein Cos CobA house oi'er two hundred years old with wide Dutch
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New Canaan Lifestyles
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Thu, Jun 01, 1995
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