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By the Edge of the Lieutenant River

1915
20th Century
30 x 38 in.

Edward Gregory Smith, American, (May 2, 1880–November 7, 1961)

Medium and Support: oil on canvas

Credit Line: Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of Timothy P. McLaughlin, MD

Accession Number: 2020.22

Landscape with water of the Lieutenant River reflecting the colors of the foliage. Painted from the artist's property on Sill Lane. Boat just visible at lower center, near the tree. Tree branch juts in from the left side of the canvas.

Artist Gregory Smith moved to Old Lyme in 1910 at the encouragement of his friend and fellow native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, artist Will Howe Foote. He admired the work of Lyme Colony artists Childe Hassam and Willard Metcalf, seeking out the local the landscape that had inspired their paintings.

After several years living among the artists centered at Florence Griswold’s boardinghouse, Smith and his wife Anne built a studio and home for their family on nearby Sill Lane. The artist painted views of the Lieutenant River from his property, where he kept a boat at the water’s edge. In keeping with the impressionist impulse to capture nature’s changing seasons and moods, Smith notices the brilliant, flat light of early fall, still warm enough for drifting gently in the boat stored by a tree whose leaves retain summer’s green.

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