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Untitled (Connecticut Landscape)
ca. 197520th Century
23 in. x 33 in.
Object Type:
Work on Paper
Medium and Support:
pastel on paper
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Yetta Groshans
Accession Number:
2006.10
Groshans executed this pastel during a trip to Connecticut in the 1970s. It depicts the profile of the Connecticut State Armory in Hartford, designed by the architect Benjamin Morris and dedicated by President William Howard Taft on November 12, 1909. Groshans diminishes the impact of the monumental granite building by setting it at a distance and in shadow.
To the right of the Armory stands the corporate headquarters of Aetna Life and Casualty Company. Built in 1931 and designed by James Gamble Rogers, it is believed to be the largest Colonial Revival building in the country.
Groshans painted still lifes, portraiture, and landscapes, some influenced by Surrealism and some, like this Connecticut landscape, including a shoftening of shadows and edges that reminds one of the Regionalism of Grant Wood.
To the right of the Armory stands the corporate headquarters of Aetna Life and Casualty Company. Built in 1931 and designed by James Gamble Rogers, it is believed to be the largest Colonial Revival building in the country.
Groshans painted still lifes, portraiture, and landscapes, some influenced by Surrealism and some, like this Connecticut landscape, including a shoftening of shadows and edges that reminds one of the Regionalism of Grant Wood.
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Dimensions
- Framed Dimensions: 22 1/2 in. x 29 1/4 in. Measured by Lansing, Amy
- image only Dimensions: 23 x 33 in.