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One of the biggest and most transformational moments in the Florence Griswold Museum’s history happened 20 years ago, when it received the gift of 190 works by Connecticut artists from the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.
The Florence Griswold Museum was established to highlight the work and history of the Lyme Art Colony. That art colony, of course, was centered at the turn of the 20th century at the Old Lyme boarding house that was run by Florence Griswold and that is now part of the museum.
The Lyme Art Colony members were mostly male and mostly white, and their focus in their painting tended to be landscapes, notes Jenny Parsons, the museum’s associate curator.