Title:
Matilda Browne, Old Lyme artist of last century
Author:
Kimball, Carol
Subjects:
Florence Griswold Museum
Women painters
Women painters
Object ID:
scr-027-008
Object Name:
scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
Day
Publication Place:
New London (Conn.)
Pubication Date:
10/26/1989
Collection:
Indian and Colonial Scrapbook
Summary:
Matilda Browne was an anomaly for her time--a successful woman landscape artist. By the time she came to Florence Griswold's artists' colony in the early 1900s she had already studied in France with Barbizon artist Julien Dupres, traveled in Europe, and won awards for her paintings of cattle. The men at Miss Florence's colony at the time accepted her and her choice of subject matter, even inviting her to paint one of the wall panels in the home. Artist Henry Rankin Poore immortalized her in his painted panel over the kitchen fireplace, which depicts a fox hunt. As she was a very private person, not many details of her personal life are known.
People:
Browne, Matilda, 1869-1947
Poore, Henry Rankin, 1859-1940
Poore, Henry Rankin, 1859-1940