A Closer Look at Lost Landscape Revealed: Childe Hassam and The Red Mill, Cos Cob

February 24, 2021
Hassam The Red Mill Cos Cob

Event Details

Date: February 24, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm

Join Maggie Dimock, Greenwich Historical Society Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, for an illustrated evening lecture on renowned American Impressionist artist Childe Hassam and his close ties to the village of Cos Cob. Learn more about the thriving art colony that grew around the 18th-century Cos Cob boardinghouse run by the Holley family (now operated by the Historical Society as the Bush-Holley House Museum), and delve into the story behind one of Hassam’s earliest Cos Cob paintings, The Red Mill, Cos Cob.

Hassam The Red Mill Cos Cob
Image: Childe Hassam, The Red Mill, Cos Cob, 1896. Oil on canvas.
Greenwich Historical Society, Museum Purchase with funds from Susan G. and James T. Larkin, Sally and Larry Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin, Debbie and Russ Reynolds, Reba and Dave Williams and Lily Downing and David Yudain

This lecture is presented by First Republic Bank in connection with the Greenwich Historical Society’s ongoing exhibit Lost Landscape Revealed: Childe Hassam and The Red Mill, Cos Cob, on view through March 28, 2021.