Cos Cob School
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Cos Cob School refers to a group of American Impressionists who formed an art colony and society in Cos Cob, a section of Greenwich, Connecticut.
The impetus behind the formation of the colony was art classes taught by artists John Henry Twachtman and J. Alden Weir in Cos Cob in the early 1890s. Both were on the faculty of the Art Students League of New York and attracted many students from that school. The town was only a short train ride from New York City, yet retained a rural character that appealed to the artists.
The colony was centered at the Holley House (now known as the Bush-Holley House), a boarding house that catered to artists and writers and served as a gathering place and classroom. A bohemian atmosphere was cultivated at the House, with the free exchange of ideas between the painters and writers staying there. They looked on the affluent New Yorkers buying up property in Greenwich with contempt and the working-class old-timers with a measure of condenscension.
Other artists associated with Cos Cob include Leonard Ochtman, Emil Carlsen, Mina Fonda Ochtman, Elmer MacRae, George Wharton Edwards, Theodore Robinson, and Childe Hassam.
By the end of World War I, the art colony changed in character as Cos Cob finally lost any remaining claim as a farming community. The seascapes and small-town atmosphere still continue to attract artists. The original art society formed in 1912 carries on the tradition of teaching and uniting artists.