Henry Fitch Taylor

Curator: Christine I. Oaklander, Ph.D.
September 30 to December 31, 2005

This retrospective exhibition brought together for the first time in a museum setting the paintings, prints and sculptures of Armory Show organizer Henry Fitch Taylor (1853-1925), presenting his work in the context of the Cos Cob art colony. Taylor's modernist oeuvre is among the most experimental of his day and stands in startling contrast to the work of other art colony artists. This rarely told chapter in the story of the Cos Cob art colony featured twenty-six of the almost forty works by Taylor known to exist today. It included his early Impressionist landscapes, his later modernist art work and photographs, letters and original exhibition catalogues from the archives of The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich and other repositories.

This exhibition was underwritten by gifts to the Greenwich Historic Trust and the Overbrook Foundation.