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| Wilson Henry Irvine |
| 1869-1936 |
| American Artist |
| Irvine was born in Illinois. He worked commercially by day and by night took painting classes at The Art Institute of Chicago. It was there he developed his lifelong interest in landscape painting. In 1914, Irvine joined the Old Lyme Art Colony, named for a small village in Connecticut. Painters living and working here comprised the first major art colony in America that encouraged Impressionism. By 1918, he had settled permanently in the nearby Hamburg Cove section of Lyme. Building upon the Old Lyme tradition established by Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, and others, Irvine explored the wealth of subjects found in the Connecticut landscape. His artistic reputation today centers on the wide range of work he did in the Lyme region. Irvine was an American artist who constantly investigated and reinvented the Impressionist plein air painting tradition during the first decades of the twentieth-century. |
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