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FROM LIKENESS TO LANDSCAPE:
American Art from the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection
November 24 through May 29, 2005

Krieble Gallery

Walter Griffin, Portrait of a Lady, Paris, c. 1897

In 2001, The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company presented the Florence Griswold Museum with a remarkable gift – a collection of 190 American oil paintings, works on paper, and sculptures. The objects, each created by an artist associated with Connecticut, span the period from the late 18th to early 20th centuries with a particular focus on American Impressionism. As a group, they provide a concise history of American art as well as a unique opportunity to examine more closely the relationships between art, history and a region’s sense of place – the very foundations of the Museum’s own educational mission. Individually, they offer some of the finest visual meditations of American artists, from the most celebrated personalities to those awaiting rediscovery.

John Haberle, The Clay Pipe, c. 1890

From Likeness to Landscape: American Art from The Hartford Steam Boiler Collection presents a selection of these extraordinary pictures, many of which are exhibited at the Florence Griswold Museum for the first time. Several will travel on to national and international venues. As their surfaces are contemplated and their subjects clarified, these paintings will enrich and revise our understanding of the past. So too, however, they will offer a glimpse toward the Museum’s future, for each canvas holds the promise of innovatory exhibitions yet to come, and suggests the leading role that this historic collection will continue to play, both at this Museum and beyond.

Frederic E. Church, A Catskill Landscape, c. 1858-1860

Paintings for this exhibition have been selected by the
Museum’s new Curator of American Art, Emily M. Florentino.

MEET THE NEW CURATOR
Emily M. Florentino, Ph.D.,
Curator of American Art

Lecture
Thursday, January 27
5:30pm
That’s the Way I See It
Fee: $10 (Members $8)
To register call Matt at 860-434-5542 x111 or e-mail matt@flogris.org

Meet Emily M. Florentino, the new Curator of American Art, for a lecture in the gallery of her first exhibition From Likeness to Landscape. Emily will discuss her approach to this and future exhibitions. A brief reception in the lobby will preceed the lecture.

Tuesday, February 8
1pm
The Fruits of His Labor: Charles Porter and the Contribution of Black Artists to Connecticut's Art History
Free with Museum admission.
No registration need.

Tuesday, March 8
1pm
In Focus: N.A. Nelson and the Photographic Impulse
Free with Museum admission.
No registration need.

Tuesday, April 12
1pm
"Eastward ‘Ho!": Willard Metcalf and the Phenomenon of American Orientalism
Free with Museum admission.
No registration need.

Tuesday, May 10
1pm
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Artist Reflections on Themselves
Free with Museum admission.
No registration need.