{"product_id":"the-cos-cob-art-colony-impressionists-on-the-connecticut-shore","title":"The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat Argenteuil in the 1870s was to French Impressionists  Cos Cob between 1890 and 1920 was to American Impressionists Childe Hassam  Theodore Robinson  John Twachtman  J. Alden Weir  and their followers. These artists and writers came together to work in the modest Cos Cob section of Greenwich  Connecticut  testing new styles and new themes in the stimulating company of colleagues. This beautiful book is the first to examine the art colony at Cos Cob and the role it played in the development of American Impressionist art. During the art-colony period  says Susan Larkin  Greenwich was changing from a farming and fishing community to a prosperous suburb of New York. The artists who gathered in Cos Cob produced work that reflects the resulting tensions between tradition and modernity  nature and technology  and country and city. The artists preferred subjectscolonial architecture  quiet landscapes  contemplative womenheld a complex significance for them  which Larkin explores. Drawing on maritime history  garden design  womens studies  and more  she places the art colony in its cultural and historical context and reveals unexpected depth in paintings of enormous popular appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966716702773,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300088523","price":49.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300088526.jpg?v=1770576338","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-cos-cob-art-colony-impressionists-on-the-connecticut-shore","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}