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Roger Dennis
Painter
(1902–1996) In LymeL c. 1940 -1997
Roger Wilson Dennis (1902-1996) was born in 1902 in Norwich, Connecticut. He studied with James McManus at the Art League in Hartford, Connecticut in the early 1930s, with Guy Wiggins, Frank Bicknell, and George Bruestle in Old Lyme, with John Carlson and Allan Cochran in Woodstock, New York, and with Robert Brackman and Harry Ballinger.

He was a member of the Lyme Art Association, 1940 and the Copley Society.

He exhibited at the Lyme Art Association annually from 1940 on. He also exhibited at the Connecticut Academy, the Copley Society, Boston, the salmagundi Club, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Mystic Art Gallery, Peter’s Gallery, New London, Connecticut, the Lyman Allyn Museum (retrospective) 1979, the Shippee Gallery, New York City, 1981-86, and the Lyman Allyn Museum, 1989.

His work is part of the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Lyman Allyn Museum, the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, the New London City Hall, the Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, the William Benton Museum, Massachusetts, and the University of Connecticut.

Dennis painted in oils and watercolor. He was considered the last surviving link to the Old Lyme Art Colony painting en plein air in the Impressionist tradition.

From 1945-77 he held the position of Conservator of painting at the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London, Connecticut.