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Miss Florence in her dining room
The artists often showed their appreciation by painting pictures on specially
fitted panels in the dining room and on various door panels throughout
the first floor of the house. This practice was reminiscent of the art
colony in Giverny, France, centered around the Hotel Baudy where many American
artists had stayed. In fact, Willard Metcalf, who had suggested the studded
panel arrangement in Miss Florence's dining room,* had also painted in
Giverny and was known to have a sketch on the wall of the Hotel Baudy.** |
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* Jeffrey
W. Andersen, The Colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut and American Impressionism
(Storrs: The William Benton Museum of Art, 1980) p. 117.
** William H. Gerdts,
Monet's Giverny: An Impressionist Colony (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993)
p. 108.
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