Gallery artist Michael (Corinne) West's work Stonington Conn. (Rainy Afternoon) (c. 1955) is included in the group show Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960 at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich Connecticut.

For three decades, Connecticut was a true international center of innovation in the arts. Although turn-of-the-century landscape painting has been justly celebrated at the Bruce and elsewhere, the significance of the state’s place in the history of 20th century modernism has gone largely unnoticed.