The Cos Cob Art Colony was a group of artists, many of them American Impressionists, who gathered in and around Cos Cob, a section of Greenwich, Connecticut, from about 1890 to about 1920. In a joking reference to their predilection for painting views of the vernacular architecture, group member Childe Hassam nicknamed the art colony "the Cos Cob Clapboard School of Art." History Artists had been coming to Greenwich to paint since the 1870s, but the art colony began to form when John Henry Twachtman settled in Greenwich in 1889. The town was only a short train ride from New... Read more

Hassam, Childe	Along the Seine, Winter	Bailey's Beach, Newport	Church	Colonial Graveyard at Lexington
Twachtman, John Henry	The Torrent	The White Bridge	Three Trees	Trees Across the River
Weir, Julian Alden	A French Homestead	A Gentlewoman	Afternoon by the Pond	An Alsatian Girl
Robinson, Theodore	The Valley of Arconville	The Watering Pots	Watching the Cows	Willows
Reid, Robert	Boy With Red Peonies	Fleur De Lis	Garden Of The Gods	Girl With Chinese Vase
Carlsen, Emil	The Open Sea	Tree in a Meadow	Woodland Interior	Working Men
Ochtman, Leonard	A Morning in Summer	Connecticut hills	Frosty morning	Morning Haze
Ochtman, Mina Fonda	The Evening Lamp	The Orchard By Moonlight	Westport Home	Summer Scene