Hills of Old Lyme, 1921
1921
20th Century
24 in. x 36 in.
George Thomson,
Canadian,
(1868–1965)
Medium and Support:
oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Purchase
Accession Number:
1980.104
View of a meadow crossed by low stone walls with a large hill in the background and a cluster of tall thin trees in the left foreground. A native of Ontario, Canada, George Thomson studied with Frank Vincent DuMond, William Lathrop and Henry Rankin Poore, all artists who were associated with Old Lyme. Thomson painted "Hills of Old Lyme" in 1921 at a time when he was actively exhibiting with the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. Thomson's work is occasionally confused with the work of well-known Mystic painter George Albert Thompson.