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105: 123:. 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 310: 330: 193:, 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 81:, 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, 241: 198: 335: 325: 320: 120: 340: 28: 315: 62: 124: 54: 171: 47: 194: 140: 94: 112: 74: 73:
Artists had been coming to Greenwich to paint since the 1870s, but the art colony began to form when
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Members of the Cos Cob art colony were deeply involved in organizing the
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settled in Greenwich in 1889. The town was only a short train ride from
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In a joking reference to their predilection for painting views of the
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The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore
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Other artists associated with the Cos Cob art colony include
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During the winter, Twachtman and Weir taught at the
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Index

Cos Cob Art Colony
Cos Cob Elementary School
Impressionists
Cos Cob
Greenwich, Connecticut
vernacular architecture
Childe Hassam
Clapboard
John Henry Twachtman
New York City
J. Alden Weir
Theodore Robinson
Henry Fitch Taylor
Robert Reid
Bush-Holley House

John Henry Twachtman
Art Students League of New York
Elmer Livingston MacRae
Ernest Lawson
Allen Tucker
Charles Ebert
Mary Roberts Ebert
Alice Judson
Genjiro Yeto
Leonard Ochtman
Mina Fonda Ochtman
Edward Clark Potter
Emil Carlsen
George Wharton Edwards

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