Miss Florence and the Artists of Old Lyme

by Arthur Heming

Still in shrink-wrap

Genres: Biography Memoir

80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Arthur Henry Howard Heming (January 17, 1870 – October 30, 1940) was a Canadian painter and novelist known as the "chronicler of the North" for his paintings, sketches, essays and books about Canada's North.

Born in Paris, Ontario and raised in Hamilton, he studied in New York City and the Old Lyme Art Colony under Frank DuMond, and in London with the Welsh master Frank Brangwyn. Heming was colour blind and as a result worked mostly in black and white for most of his life. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lovely telling of the summers spent in the artist colony in Old Lyme, CT in the early 1900s. If you are ever in CT, go to the Florence Griswold Museum and tour the house. It is one of the loveliest little museums I have ever seen. This book, written by a member of the colony, is a first hand account of the artists and their antics.