{{importance}} The '''Cos Cob Art Colony''' was a group of artists, many of them American Impressionists, who gathered in and around Cos Cob, a section of Greenwich,_Connecticut, from about 1890 to about 1920. In a joking reference to their predilection to paint views of the vernacular architecture, Childe_Hassam, one of the group, nicknamed the art colony "the Cos Cob Clapboard School of Art." Artists had been coming to Greenwich to paint since the 1870s, but the art colony began to form when John_Henry_Twachtman settled in Greenwich in 1889. The town was only a short train ride from New_York_City, yet retained a rural character that appealed to artists. Many of Twachtman's friends came to visit him at his home; among them were Hassam, J._Alden_Weir, Theodore_Robinson, Henry_Fitch_Taylor, and Robert_Reid. For longer stays, they boarded at the Holley House (now known as the Bush-Holley_House, a rambling old saltbox overlooking Cos Cob's small harbor. During the winter, Twachtman and Weir taught at the Art_Students_League_of_New_York. Probably beginning in 1890, Twachtman established summer art classes in Cos Cob; Weir taught with him in 1892 and 1893. Many of the summer students were enrolled at the Art Students League. Among the artists who first visited Cos Cob as summer students were Elmer_MacRae, Ernest_Lawson, Allen_Tucker, Charles_Ebert, Mary_Roberts_Ebert, Alice_Judson, and Genjiro_Yeto. Other artists associated with the Cos Cob Art Colony include Leonard_Ochtman, Mina_Fonda_Ochtman, Edward_Clark_Potter, Emil_Carlsen, George_Wharton_Edwards, and Kerr_Eby. The art colony also included many writers and editors, including Lincoln_Steffens and Willa_Cather. Members of the Cos Cob Art Colony were deeply involved in organizing the Armory_Show, the exhibition that in 1913 introduced modernist European art to a vast American audience. The art colony formed its own hometown organization in 1911. The Greenwich_Society_of_Artists (now the Greenwich_Art_Society) held its first exhibition in 1912 at Bruce Museum, which opened to the public for the first time on that occasion. ==Reference== *{{cite book | author=Larkin, Susan G. | title=The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore | publisher=National Academy of Design/Yale University Press | year=2001 | id=ISBN 0-300-08852-3}} ==External links== *Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail *Greenwich Historical Society *Bruce Museum *Greenwich Art Society Category:American_artist_groups_and_collectives Category:Impressionism Category:Cultural_history_of_the_United_States Category:Greenwich,_Connecticut {{art-org-stub}}