Shipyard, Old Lyme, Connecticut

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EDMUND WILLIAM GREACEN (1876-1949)
Shipyard, Old Lyme, Connecticut
signed 'Edmund Greacen-' (lower left)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1910.

Provenance

Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, by 1999.
Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2015.

Exhibited

New York, National Arts Club, Exhibition of Small Paintings, February 8-29, 1928.
Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Art Museum, Colonies of American Impressionism: Cos Cob, Old Lyme, Shinnecock and Laguna Beach, January 9-April 11, 1999, pp. 54, 137, no. 15, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Born in New York City, Edmund Greacen studied at the Art Students League and William Merritt Chase's art school. Interested in Impressionism, he moved to Giverny in 1907, where he stayed for two years and became close friends with fellow American expatriate Theodore Butler. Upon his return to the United States, between 1910 and 1917, Greacen began regularly visiting Old Lyme, Connecticut, helping to establish an "American Giverny" artist community there.

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