With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Carolyn Sarah Horsfall
Illustration, Painting/Drawing
1901 – 1988
- Biography/Description of Work
Horsfall grew up in Hartford and attended Miss Porter’s School in Farmington for a time. In about 1920 she began several years of study at Pratt Institute, NYC, and afterward at the Tiffany Institute. She listed her teachers as Anna Fisher, Henry B. Snell, and George Pearse Ennis. She did fashion illustration in NYC in the 1920s and lived in Greenwich Village. She had a Hartford address by the end of the decade. At age 30 she married and moved to New London. She joined the Hartford Society of Women Painters and exhibited with that group in the 1930s. Watercolor was her preferred medium. In Nov 1928 she had a solo exhibition at the Annex of the Wadsworth Atheneum.
- Sources view
- UConn artists db, Falk99 and Connart files.
- Associated Resource(s)
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