Historic American Art Colonies
DVDs Sampler
A Certain Light is a 15 minute 1991 videotape of the story of the Lyme Art Colony and the Florence Griswold Museum. Engaging narrative with paintings, antique photos, and period music.
Art Colonies in America: The American Impressionist. Of this 46 minute 2004 DVD directed by Albert J. Kallis, National
Film Network 
says: "This film studies four colonies:
Cos Cob and Old Lyme, Connecticut, Shinnecock, Long Island, and Laguna Beach,
California... Each colony had its own unique flavor. Each colony had a devoted
core of resident artists. Each colony possessed a distinctive geographic
location. The common thread connecting them was the rise and spread of impressionist
practices in America. Painting en plein air, artists explored the landscape
around them: domesticated in some areas, much more primitive in others,
but yet all painted with the verve, color, and spontaneity that define American
Impressionist painting... Art Colonies in America presents the backdrop
from which Impressionism emerged in Europe and was adopted by American painters.
Visually spectacular and painstakingly researched, the film offers viewers
a comprehensive and fascinating account of this defining moment in the history
of American painting."
Art in Its Soul: Perspectives of an Art Colony, . "This video traces the evolution of the quaint town of Provincetown, on Cape Cod, as a major art colony through oral history, archival footage and works of art. Artists recall the early 1900s when students from around the world came to study here with Charles Hawthorne." 28 minutes (text courtesy Georgia Museum of Art)
Dublin Art Colony Collection at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, The 30-minutes. This video, produced and narrated by Paul Tuller, former president of the Dublin Historical Society -- available to libraries throughout New Hampshire -- explains and illustrates in detail the artists and the history of the colony, which flourished around Mount Monadnock in the late 19th century and into the mid 20th century. The video shows many of the wonderful paintings created by this prolific group of 30 artists in the Dublin Colony.
MacDowell Colony: An American Artist's Colony. 1 hour. Available through Currier Museum of Art.
Once Upon a Time in Old Lyme: The Story of an American Art Colony is a 19 minute DVD produced by the Florence Griswold Museum in 2007. It was brought to TFAO's attention by Tammi Flynn of the Florence Griswold Museum and Shana Herb Johannessen. See Part 1 [9:50] and Part 2 [9:38] of the video.
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