"Bridge at Old Lyme" Edmund Greacen

"Bridge at Old Lyme" Edmund Greacen

Author: Edmund Greacen

Year: 1910

"Bridge at Old Lyme" by Edmund Greacen, oil, 30"x 30", 1910 Edmund William Greacen (1876-1949) Elected Artist ( July 18, 1914 ) Lyme Art Association; exhibited in Old Lyme 1911-1917, 1921 at Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library and Lyme Art Association gallery Information about Edmund Greacen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Greacen Online Biography for Edmund Greacen: The artist's father, Thomas Edmund Greacen, arrived in New York from Scotland in 1868 and became active in the shoe business. Soon he married Isabella Wiggins, "the daughter of a wealthy New York family; applied her capital and his own shrewd judgment to the wholesale shoe trade, and prospered." The family holdings expanded: "There was a brownstone at 6 West 50th Street. . . [and] a farm in Sullivan County where the four children spent their summers" (Knudsen, 1972, p. 5). One of these children, the second of three sons, Edmund W. Greacen, the future painter, was born on 18 September 1876, the year of the great Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Growing up in a relatively affluent household, Edmund first attended the Halsey School and then continued his education at New York University, where his curriculum included ar