Artists by Name

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• Taber, Gladys

  Gladys Taber

  1899 – 1980

• Tackett, LaGardo

  LaGardo Tackett

  1911 – 1984

• Talbot Sr., Vernon G.

  Vernon G. Talbot Sr.

  1884 – 1985

• Talcott, Dudley Vaill

  Dudley Vaill Talcott

  1899 – 1986

  Modernist sculptor with hillside home and studio in Farmington from 1935 to his death.

• Tandy, Jessica

  Jessica Tandy

  1909 – 1994

• Tanguy, Yves

  Yves Tanguy

  1900 – 1950

• Tantaquidgeon, Gladys

  Gladys Tantaquidgeon

  1899 – 2005

  Preservation of Mohegan tribal traditions and records, instrumental in Federal recognition of the Mohegan Tribe in 1994. Co-founder of the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum. Worked in the Bureau of Indian Affairs to promote Native American artwork as a method of preserving tribal autonomy.

• Tarbell, Ida

  Ida Tarbell

  1857 – 1944

  Tarbell was the only woman among an elite group of progressive journalists who wrote about problems in the US during the early twentieth century, exposing corruption in order to promote a fairer society. Starting in 1906, her work, including “Father Abraham” (1909), “The Business of Being a Woman” (1912), and her autobiography, “All in the Day’s Work” (1939), were written entirely in her study at Twin Oaks.

• Taylor, Robert Lewis

  Robert Lewis Taylor

  1912 – 1998

• Teale, Edwin Way

  Edwin Way Teale

  1899 – 1980

  Edwin Way Teale was one of the best-loved naturalists of his generation. He was also an accomplished photographer who pioneered new techniques for creating close-up images of insects and other living things. Among Teale’s many books are ‘North with the Spring’ (1951), ‘Circle of the Seasons’ (1953), and ‘Wandering Through Winter’ (1965), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.

• Terenzio, Anthony & Stephanie

  Anthony & Stephanie Terenzio

  1923 – 2000

  Anthony was a painter and art teacher at the University of Connecticut, while Stephanie brought the work of important modernist artists to the William Benton Museum where she was curator.

• Thew, Robert Garret

  Robert Garret Thew

  1892 – 1964

• Thompson, Virgil

  Virgil Thompson

  1896 – 1989

• Thompson, George Albert

  George Albert Thompson

  1868 – 1938

• Thorp, Earl Norwell

  Earl Norwell Thorp

  1900 – 1951

• Thorsen, Lars

  Lars Thorsen

  1876 – 1952

  WPA artist Lars Thorsen was a locally prominent Regionalist painter, capturing images of the sailing ships as they were being replaced by motorized shipping, much as other Regionalists portrayed the decline of agricultural landscape and buildings. Though his artwork was exhibited in Hartford, he was primarily based in southeastern Connecticut.

• Thurber, James

  James Thurber

  1894 – 1961

  Thurber had established himself in literary and journalism circles by the time he moved to Newtown. His creative output over the years at the house was strong, and here he wrote a humorous autobiographical piece, “My Life and Hard Times” in 1933, as well as a number of essays published in The New Yorker which riffed on married life and are thought to be about his wife Althea.

• Tobey, Alton

  Alton Tobey

  1914 – 2005

  WPA artist and muralist. “The Stop of Hooker’s Bank in East Hartford before Crossing the River” was created for the East Hartford Post Office.

• Toffler, Alvin

  Alvin Toffler

  1928 – 2016

• Tolstoy, Ilya

  Ilya Tolstoy

  1866 – 1933

• Tremaine, Burton and Emily

  Burton and Emily Tremaine

  1902 – 1991

  Residents of Madison, the Tremaines were important patrons and collectors of 20th century European and American modern art, beginning in 1944. Emily (1908-1987) was a distant cousin of Chick Austin, first director of the Wadsworth Atheneum, by marriage. The artwork the couple assembled was among the most important corporate collections in the country. After their deaths, some works were bequests, such as Alexander Liberman’s ‘Untitled’ sculpture at the Yale A&B Building, and much was sold at auction.

• Triplett, Margaret Lauren

  Margaret Lauren Triplett

  1905 – 1991

• Trudeau, Garry

  Garry Trudeau

  1948 –

• Tuchman, Barbara

  Barbara Tuchman

  1912 – 1989

  Barbara Tuchman wrote numerous history books on popular themes of the time. “The Guns of August” (1962) and “Stilwell and the American Experience in China” (1971) both won her Pulitzer Prizes.  She started out as a journalist, and later transitioned to writing non-fiction books, many of which were developed and completed on her Greenwich estate in Connecticut, called Wyndygoul.