About Allen Butler Talcott
Allen Butler Talcott was an American landscape painter. After studying art in Paris for three years at Académie Julian, he returned to the United States, becoming one of the first members of the Old Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut. His paintings, usually landscapes depicting the local scenery and often executed en plein air, were generally Barbizon and Tonalist, sometimes incorporating elements of Impressionism. He was especially known and respected for his paintings of trees. After eight summers at Old Lyme, he died there at the age of 41. Ranger was also founder of the Old Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut, and Talcott became one of the first artists to join. His artistic inclinations were apparent at an early age, as he created sketches of teachers and fellow students in the margins of his grade school books.
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