Charles S. Gaylord, Summer Landscape, 1845.
Collection of the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT.
Gaylordsville
Charles Seely Gaylord, son of the local family who operated the river crossing at Gaylordville, was a painter who exhibited area landscapes at the National Academy in the 1840s. His friend, the artist Jasper Cropsey, painted in his studio in the same period, and traveled farther up the Houstonic Valley over the next decade. Luis Mora, a member of the National Academy and a former teacher at William Merritt Chase’s school on Long Island, built a home and studio in Gaylordsville in 1913.