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Old Lyme Landscapes Collection

c. 1920
20th Century

Benjamin Eggleston, (1867–1937)

Object Type: Work on Paper

Medium and Support: graphite on paper

Credit Line: Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Dr. Clark S. Marlor

Accession Number: 1978.57

A collection of graphite, pastel and colored pencil drawings of the Lyme landscape circa 1920. They are all stamped on the back: "Estate of Benjamin Eggleston, 1867-1937." There is also one photograph of his studio. In 1928 Eggleston had a summer home and studio in Old Lyme, Connecticut "where he fines suggestions for many of his best landscape productions" Long Island Life Magazine, August 1928.

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