William Chadwick

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William Chadwick, often referred to as the “quintessential American Impressionist artist”,  ranks alongside such other major American Impressionist artists as Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, and Walter Griffin, all of whom spent summers together at the boarding home of Florence Griswold in Old Lyme, Connecticut.  Chadwick was introduced to the Old Lyme artist colony by fellow artists William Foote and Harry Hoffman from the Arts Students League in New York.  Up to that point in time, Chadwick’s paintings had focused primarily on portraiture and genre scenes popular with artists such as Joseph DeCamp and other members of the classically trained Boston School.  After being exposed to the rolling countryside of Connecticut and to the newly evolving impressionist painting style of his fellow artists in the Old Lyme art community, however, Chadwick began to turn his previous focus towards “plein air” or outdoor painting of landscapes which reflected the different play of lights and shadows on his subjects within his own distinctive style that was marked by subtle tones, broad brushwork and texturally impastoed surfaces.

 

Associations:

Lyme Art Association

Salmagundi Club Member

Collections & Museums:

Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut

George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts

Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut

Pfeil Collection – Impressionists

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

The Marshall Collection

The Mattatuck Museum of the Mattatuck Historical Society, Connecticut

 

Exhibitions:

Art Institute of Chicago

Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.

Lyme Art Association

National Academy of Design

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Vose Galleries, Boston