Pastel

Frederick Childe Hassam
,
Elmer MacRae
,
Theodore Robinson
,
John Henry Twachtman
,
Julian Alden Weir
The Bush-Holley House features two distinct time periods – the New Nation (1790-1825), when it was owned by a wealthy merchant, and its later life as a boarding house and home to the Cos Cob art colony (1890-1920). The house displays art and furnishings from both eras. The artists of the “Cos Cob Clapboard School,” as Childe Hassam dubbed it, found inspiration in the atmospheric old house.