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Cos Cob Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Art Colony Paint Box

Cos Cob Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Art Colony Paint Box

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An open paint box on the riverbank, a canvas drying inside the lid, the railroad bridge behind. Cos Cob is where American Impressionism learned to paint Connecticut.

In the 1890s a boarding house by the Mianus River took in painters from New York. Twachtman, Hassam and their students set up easels on the docks and painted the bridge, the boats and the saltbox houses until the hamlet became an art colony the critics named. The light here, flat and silver off the tidal river, is in museum collections across the country.

The house still stands as a museum, the bridge still carries trains, and the view from the bank is close enough to the paintings that you can match them canvas by canvas.

A paint box with a single dab of red on the palette is the quietest way to say that this small place changed how America saw itself. People who know, know.

The Cos Cob art colony at the Bush-Holley House was a birthplace of American Impressionism, where Twachtman taught and painters worked from the docks. The artist paint box on this ornament belongs to that story, a Cos Cob and Greenwich art keepsake and a paint box gift for anyone who paints.

Every Cos Cob ornament ships ready to give. Hang it on the tree, in a window, off a lamp, or send one to the person who misses Cos Cob most.

3-inch faceted crystal glass ornament, white-backed print, line-drawn in 1880s engraving style, your choice of white or gold gift box.


QUICK FACTS — COS COB CT CRYSTAL ORNAMENT — ART COLONY PAINT BOX

Town: Cos Cob, Connecticut

Founded: Village of Greenwich (settled 1640); art colony from 1890

Known for: The Cos Cob Art Colony at the Bush-Holley House; Connecticut’s first art colony; Cos Cob Harbor on the Mianus

Art: Art Colony Paint Box, original Merlin Classics engraving

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

Made to order in the USA



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Their home was the Holley House — today the Bush-Holley House — a colonial saltbox built around 1728 on a hill above Cos Cob Harbor where the Mianus River runs out to the Sound. Josephine and Edward Holley ran it as a boarding house, and the students who came to study with Twachtman took rooms there. In 1896 a young painter named Elmer MacRae arrived as one of those students, fell in love with the Holleys' daughter Constant, married her in 1900, and together they kept the boardinghouse going — and the colony alive — for two more decades.

Why Cos Cob? In a word, the train. The Cos Cob station put the village less than an hour from New York, and the place gave Impressionism everything it wanted: tidal light on the Mianus, a working harbor, weathered clapboard houses, and the old Palmer and Duff shipyard across the water — the very subject of Hassam's painting 'The Red Mill, Cos Cob.' The artists worked outdoors, en plein air, just as the French had done at Giverny, chasing color that changed by the minute, and the Lower Landing of the Mianus handed them a ready-made composition at every tide.

Why People Visit Cos Cob

Cos Cob offers art heritage and green escapes in a small, walkable village. Visitors pair the Bush-Holley House and its Impressionist collection with river paths, harbor overlooks, and quiet historic streets. It is tranquil, residential, and close to the water, with year-round appeal in its parks, paths, and public spaces. History and everyday life sit side by side here, from the saltbox over the harbor to the trails along the Mianus.

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