Laurel
n.d.
30 in. x 30 in. (762 mm. x 762 mm.)
William Chadwick,
American,
(1879–August 3, 1962)
Medium and Support:
oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Elisabeth Chadwick O'Connell
Accession Number:
1975.7.4
A favorite subject of the Lyme Impressionist painters, laurel, the Connecticut State flower, grows in abundance in this shoreline town. In this work by Chadwick, bushes of mountain laurel and other trees fill the foreground of the work while in the distance one can see the marshy shoreline.