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.
108 Crescent Street, Norwich
- Slater Memorial Museum
- Ozias Dodge
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Third director of the Norwich Art School from 1897 to 1910.
- Hannah Dodge
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Hannah Dodge became the director of the Slater Memorial Museum in 1925 and was responsible for re-opening the museum after a period of closure.
- Charlotte Fuller Eastman
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Eastman's paintings are represented in the Slater Memorial Museum collections.
- Joseph Gualtieri
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An art teacher at Norwich Academy, Gualtieri was also onetime director of its Slater Art Museum.
- Margaret Lauren Triplett
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Teacher and director at the Norwich Art School between 1929 and 1970.
- Irene Weir
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Irene Weir was the first director of the then Norwich Art School from 1890 to 1893.
- Description of Significance/Historical Narrative
- William A. Slater established the Slater Memorial Museum in 1888 to honor his father John Fox Slater. While the collection includes one of the most intact collections of Victorian plaster casts of Classical sculpture, the museum also supported work of 20th century artists, in no small part through its professional artist/teachers who headed the Art School and Museum. Among them were Ozias Dodge (1868-1925), Art School Director 1897-1910; Charlotte Fuller Eastman (1878-1965), Art School Director 1912-1943; Hannah Sprague Dodge (1877-1963), Slater Memorial Museum Director 1925-1963; Margaret Lauren Triplett (1905-1991), Teacher 1929 – 1944, Art School Director 1944 – 1970; Blanche Browning (1908-1997), Art School Director 1970-1977; Joseph Gualtieri (1916-2015), Teacher 1943-2015, Art Department Head, Slater Memorial Museum Director 1962-2003; Frank Novak (b. 1940), Art School Director 1977-1997.
- Date of Construction
- 1888
- Historic Designation(s)
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- National Register District
- Historic Resource Inventoryfile_download