• Press Room
  • Donate Today
  • Become a Member

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

  • Visit
    • Hours & Admission
    • Getting Here
    • Group Visits
    • Family Visits
    • Explore the Grounds
    • Facility Rental
    • Calendar of Events
  • Exhibitions & Collections
    • About the Collection
    • Permanent Exhibitions
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Digital Exhibitions
      • Mobile Tours
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Sculpture Trail
  • Education
    • Summer Art Immersion
    • Art History for All
    • Small Group Workshops
    • Drop-in Art Making
    • Learning Resources
    • Outreach Programs
    • Homeschool Programs
    • Onsite Group Visits
    • Children’s Birthday Parties
  • Events & Programs
    • Earthly Delights • Spring Soirée
    • Summer Fest
    • Lectures and Presentations
    • Yoga in the Garden
    • Saturdays at the Lyman Allyn
    • Calendar of Events
  • Support
    • Membership
      • Reciprocal Partners
    • Ways to Give
      • Lyman Allyn Fund
      • Planned Giving
      • Yellow Bus Fund
    • Get Involved
      • Docent Program
      • Volunteer Opportunities
      • Internship Opportunities
  • About Us
    • Your Museum
    • 90th Anniversary
    • Staff
    • Meet the Team
    • Board of Trustees
    • Employment
    • Partners and Sponsors
    • Press Room

A Sense of Place: Painters of Matunuck, Rhode Island 1873-1941

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the picturesque hamlet of Matunuck, Rhode Island, emerged as an art colony, rooted more in its location than in a unified style of painting. Artists ranging from the marine painter William Trost Richards to the impressionist Philip Leslie Hale were introduced to Matunuck by family members and were inspired by the unique beauty of their surroundings.

Landscape painters Philip, Ellen and Susan Hale, Caroline Atkinson, William Trost Richards, Anna Brewster, Eleanor Price and Frank Mathewson – whose work you will see in this exhibition – span generations, artistic styles and schools of painting. What binds them is the inspiration they found in Matunuck and the landscape they were drawn to. Each of these painters interpreted the Matunuck landscape in a personal way, yet among them they encompass most of the major trends defining American painting of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—Barbizon School, impressionism, post-impressionism, tonalism and plein-air painting—as well as the creation of the era’s predominant artistic institution: a summer school.

Philip Leslie Hale A Walk through the Fields 1895 oil on canvas
Philip Leslie Hale
A Walk through the Fields
1895
oil on canvas
Anna Richards Brewster Weeden House c. 1915 oil on canvas-board
Anna Richards Brewster
Weeden House
c. 1915
oil on canvas-board
Frank Convers Mathewson Marsh September (Salt Pond) 1934 oil on canvas
Frank Convers Mathewson
Marsh September (Salt Pond)
1934
oil on canvas

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Past Exhibitions Tagged With: Matunuck, SenseOfPlace

Exhibitions

About the Collection
Permanent
Current
Upcoming
Digital
Past
Sculpture Trail

HOURS & ADMISSION

Monday: CLOSED
Tuesday – Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Sunday: 1 — 5 pm
Last admission at 4 pm

We are located just off I-95. Take Exit 83 and follow the cultural attraction signs.

Calendar

<< May 2022 >>
MTWTFSS
25 26 27 28 29 30 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31 1 2 3 4 5

CONNECT WITH US

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Visit Us

Lyman Allyn Art Museum
625 Williams Street
New London, CT 06320 USA
Tel: 860.443.2545
info@lymanallyn.org

Hours

Tues – Sat: 10 am – 5 pm
Sun: 1 – 5 pm
Last admission at 4 pm
Closed Mondays & major holidays
Admission │ Directions

Connect with Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Find it Fast

About Us
Privacy Policy
Refund Policy
Appraisal Inquiries
© 2022 Lyman Allyn Art Museum