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Winfield Scott Clime
Lyme Art Colony
American,
(November 7, 1881–October 13, 1958)
In Lyme: 1929-1958
Winfield Scott Clime (1881-1958) studied painting at the Corcoran Art School, the Art Student's League with Frank Vincent DuMond, the Drexel Institute, and at George Washington University.
He began his career as a pictorialist photographer in the years after 1900, and moved into movies as well. He recored the first fatal plan crash on film in 1908. Clime worked as a photographer and filmmaker for the Department of Agriculture and served in World War I as part of the Signal Corps. He broke bones making a war movie in France and returned to Washington, D.C. to recover, then moved into commercial film.
He was a member of the Society of Washington Artists, the Washington Water Color Club, the National Arts Club, the American Artists Professional League, the Salmagundi Club, the Lyme Art Association, and the Brooklyn Art Association.