The current exhibition on show at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is The Artist in the Connecticut Landscape, which draws from the collections of 10 partner institutions to present some of the most renowned depictions of Connecticut in art from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
The 76 works are from the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Florence Griswold Museum, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, the Mattatuck Museum, the Mystic Arts Center, Mystic Seaport, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Slater Memorial Museum, and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Also on show through Nov. 29 is a pop-up exhibition titled, TIME & PLACE Young Artists Inspired by Artworks in the Current Exhibition. Artist/instructor Susan Stephenson partnered with the Museum to create an immersive learning experience for her sophomore painting students at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. After visiting the exhibition,The Artist in the Connecticut Landscape, students were asked to respond to a work with their own interpretation
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