Tosca Olinsky

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'''Tosca Olinsky''' (1909–1984) was an American artist known for her realist still life and figure paintings. Critics described her work as conservative and, as one said, falling between the extremes of a meticulous accuracy of illustration, on the one hand, and "the sketchy contrivance of an illusionistic picture", on the other.<ref name="Christian Science Monitor Aug 1948"/> By temperament neither experimental nor innovative, she adopted a style in which another critic said, "professional competence and good taste" took precedence over "imagination and adventure".<ref name="The Day Apr 1958"/> A third critic praised her skill in executing works within the narrow range of her choice of subjects and her manner of treating them. Other critics praised her handling of color and her ability to create harmonious designs.

She showed mostly in large exhibitions held by nonprofit organizations and, although she lived and worked mainly in Manhattan, she did not associate herself with any commercial galleries in that city. Her subjects were mainly still lifes, flower pieces, and female portraits. She also occasionally painted rural and urban scenes. She worked in oil, gouache, watercolor, pastel, and tempera. She normally worked in a studio and most of her output was approximately easel-sized.

Olinsky was born in Florence, Italy, on March 11, 1909, to parents who had emigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States in the first years of the century.<ref name="The Day Jun 1984"/><ref name="Jacobsen Biographical Index 2002"/><ref name="Foreign Travel 1948"/>

She received her art training at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, as well as from her father, the artist and art instructor Ivan Olinsky. She taught art in Old Lyme, Connecticut, for many years and was one of the organizers of the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts.

==Early life and training== thumb|Tosca Olinsky, Still Life with chair, 1934, oil on panel, 30 x 25 inches thumb|Tosca Olinsky, 8th Ave. local, about 1940, oil on board, 12 x 15 inches thumb|Tosca Olinsky, Still Life with Guitar, 1941, oil on board, 30 x 25 inches thumb|Tosca Olinsky, Girl at the Window, 1946, gouache on paper, 20 x 16 inches thumb|Tosca Olinsky, Floral Still Life, 1947 ca., oil on canvas, 15.5 x 14 inches thumb|Tosca Olinsky, Floral Still Life, about 1969, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches thumb|Tosca Olinsky, Flowers in a Vase, undated, oil on board, 24 x 20 inches thumb|Tosca Olinsky, Flowers in a Silver Vase, undated, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches Olinsky was born in Florence in 1909 during a period when her parents, both US citizens, were traveling in Italy.<ref name="Jacobsen Biographical Index 2002"/><ref name="Ivan Passport 1908"/> Living in Manhattan with her parents, she received training at home from her father, Ivan Olinsky, who was a noted portrait painter and art teacher. Between 1927 and 1930, attended the National Academy of Design where her instructors were Charles Louis Hinton, a prodigious realist painter and sculptor, and Raymond Neilson, a portraitist and still life painter.<ref name="New York Sun Dec 1944"/><ref name="National Academy"/> She subsequently took classes at the Art Students League where Neilson and her father were teaching.<ref name="The Day Jun 1984"/>

==Career in art==

Whether living with her parents or on her own, Olinsky generally spent the colder months in Manhattan and the warmer ones in the art colony of Old Lyme.<ref name="PAFA Exhibition Record 1988"/><ref name="The Day Apr 1937"/><ref name="Manhattan Directory 1957"/> In 1928, she made the first of many appearances in exhibitions of the Lyme Art Association,.<ref name="Catalog of the 27th Annual Exhibition 1928"/><ref name="Catalog of the 28th Annual Exhibition 1929"/> and the following year, she made the first of many appearances in exhibitions of the National Academy of Design.<ref name="National Academy"/><ref name="Hartford Courant Jul 1930"/><ref name="The Day Sep 1935"/> Both associations were known for their conservative taste in art.<ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Feb 1943"/><ref name="Lyme Art Colony"/> Members of the New York academy tended simply, as one critic said, to avoid "innovation and experiment" while the members of the Lyme academy tended toward the realist style favored by Childe Hassam and other proponents of American Impressionism.<ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Feb 1943"/><ref name="Lyme Art Colony"/><ref name="Childe Hassam American Impressionist"/><ref name="Ivan G Olinsky"/>

She also exhibited with the National Arts Club (founded in 1898), Allied Artists of America (founded in 1914), the Connecticut Watercolor Society (founded in 1938), Audubon Artists (founded in 1942), and the National Association of Women Artists (founded in 1889).<ref name="The Day Sep 1971"/><ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Apr 1945"/> Her paintings also appeared in group exhibitions at the Montclair Art Museum,<ref name="Montclair Times Jun 1933"/> Macbeth Galleries,<ref name="New York Post Jan 1935"/> the Macy Art Gallery,<ref name="New York Sun Mar 1935"/> Grand Central Art Galleries,<ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Dec 1944"/> and the Essex Art Association.<ref name="The Day Sep 1951"/>

She was given her first solo exhibition in 1944 at Grand Central Art Galleries.<ref name="New York Sun Dec 1944"/> Most of the 18 works were flower paintings in tempera, some lent by collectors, and others newly made and offered for sale.<ref name="New York Sun Dec 1944"/> Writing in ''The New York Times'', the critic Howard Devree praised her "quiet yet spirited statements", while A.Z. Kruse, in the ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'', called attention to a "surety and briskness of touch", and Melville Upton, in the ''New York Sun'', said it was a "brilliant showing".<ref name="New York Times Dec 1944"/><ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Dec 1944"/><ref name="New York Sun Dec 1944"/> She had a second solo in 1949 at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, a third at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London in 1958, and others in 1971 and 1978 at the Lyme Art Center.<ref name="The Day Apr 1958"/><ref name="The Day Sep 1971"/><ref name="The Day Aug 1949"/><ref name="The Day Oct 1978"/> Writing about the 1958 show, the painter Tom Ingle wrote: "Professional competence and good taste distinguish all of Tosca's works, taking precedence over imagination and adventure."<ref name="The Day Apr 1958"/>

Olinsky received awards from the National Arts Club in 1934,<ref name="New York Sun Mar 1934"/> 1936, 1937, 1939, and 1941;<ref name="In Memoriam; Members' Show 1984"/> from the National Academy of Design in 1937<ref name="Art Digest Mar 1937"/> and 1943;<ref name="New York Times Feb 16 1943"/> and from Allied Artists of America in 1940.<ref name="New York Times Oct 1940"/> Other awards include Connecticut Watercolor Society in 1947,<ref name="Hartford Courant Oct 1947"/> Audubon Artists in 1957 and 1959,<ref name="New York Times Jan 1957"/> the Instituto de Allende in Mexico in 1950, the Jane Peterson prize in 1957, and the Salmagundi Club prize for oil Allied Artists Show in 1972.<ref name="The Day Jun 1984"/>

Images of Olinsky's paintings occasionally appeared in newspapers and journals from time to time. For example, in 1937, ''Art Digest'' showed the painting that won a prize at the National Academy that year;<ref name="Art Digest Mar 1937"/> and in 1948 the ''Christian Science Monitor'' showed a floral still life with accompanying text discussing the enduring popularity of the genre.<ref name="Christian Science Monitor Aug 1948"/> In 1941, ''The New York Times'' reproduced a painting called "Girl with a Straw Hat"<ref name="New York Times Aug 1941"/> and ''Times'' critic, Edward Alden Jewell called attention to the painting's "admirable freshness and strength".<ref name="New York Times Aug 17 1941"/>

After participating in the National Academy for many years as an associate member, Olinsky was elected to full membership in 1969.<ref name="The Day Mar 1969"/> She also held memberships in the Lyme Art Association, Audubon Artists, the American Water Color Society, and Allied Artists.<ref name="The Day Jun 1984"/>

Her work did not appear in retrospective exhibitions after she died, but auction houses continued to find collectors willing to buy works that came on the market from time to time.<ref name="Jacobsen Biographical Index 2002"/>

===Artistic style===

Olinsky signed her paintings, often using just her first name and on occasion using only her initials. She did not always give them titles and, when she did, she often simply identified the genre, as in "Still Life", or the dominant feature, as in "Red Apples".<ref name="Catalog of the 28th Annual Exhibition 1929"/><ref name="Catalog of the 32nd Annual Exhibition 1933"/>{{refn|group=note|These are the titles given to the nine paintings Olinsky showed at the Lyme Art Association's annual in 1941: "Girl with a Straw Hat", "Flowers and Fruit", "Glimpse of the Hudson", "Straw Flowers", "Pears", "Flowers", "Poppies", "8th Ave. Local", and "Refugees".<ref name="Catalog of the 40th Annual Exhibition 1941"/> }} She did not date her paintings.<ref name="Tosca Olinsky Invaluable"/>

Like the other members of the Lyme Art Association, Olinsky was a realist painter whose style had evolved from the American Impressionism of Childe Hassam, Guy C. Wiggins, and other Old Lyme artists of the early 20th century.<ref name="Lyme Art Colony"/><ref name="Childe Hassam American Impressionist"/><ref name="Ivan G Olinsky"/> Located between photographic exactitude, at one extreme, and nonobjective abstraction, on the other, this style, in company with her technique and choice of subjects, varied little during her career.<ref name="Christian Science Monitor Aug 1948"/><ref name="The Day Apr 1958"/> In 1943, one reviewer grouped her with other National Academy artists who resisted innovation and showed no temptation to experiment, and, in 1958, another noted the limited scope of her work, praising her for attaining success within the relatively narrow boundaries that she had set for herself.<ref name="The Day Apr 1958"/><ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Feb 1943"/>

Her paintings rarely measured more than three feet in their largest dimension. She most frequently showed figure paintings, flower paintings, and still lifes and usually painted either in oil on canvas and board or in watercolor and gouache or tempera on paper.<ref name="New York Times Dec 1944"/><ref name="Catalog of the 40th Annual Exhibition 1941"/><ref name="Art Digest Jan 1945"/>

Throughout her career, critics saw Olinsky as skilled in handling color. In 1930, Rochelle Brackman, in the ''Hartford Courant'', wrote of her "honest seeking for true color"<ref name="Hartford Courant Jul 1930"/> and, the same year, Elizabeth Belle Tyler, in the ''Springfield Daily Republican'', discussed the "unusual charm" in one of her flower paintings.<ref name="Springfield Republican Aug 1930"/> In 1943, a critic said a portrait of Olinsky's showed an "unerring sense of color"<ref name="Daily Republican Jul 1943"/> and in 1951 another described the colors in a flower painting as "beguiling".<ref name="Art Digest Apr 1951"/>

Critics also credited Olinsky with skill in the composition of her paintings.<ref name="The Day Apr 1958"/><ref name="New York Sun Dec 1944"/><ref name="The Day Sep 1935"/><ref name="Art Digest Apr 1951"/> In 1956, a reviewer said of a still life in one of the Lyme annuals, "Here we have one of the notable numbers of this season's showing. Here, linear organization, design, emphasis of mass have been used, all as a means toward the shaping of an expressive image—not exploited as ends in themselves."<ref name="The Day Jul 1956"/>

In 1945, a critic commented on the solidity she achieved in her still life paintings<ref name="Art Digest Jan 1945"/> and a few years later another critic noted a skill in handling spatial relationships.<ref name="The Day Sep 1951"/> Commenting on her technique, a reviewer said her brushwork was meticulous in 1943.<ref name="New York Times Feb 28 1943"/>

Discussing works in tempera that she showed in 1944, the critic A.Z. Kruse drew attention to her "surety and briskness of touch"<ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Dec 1944"/> and another critic, Howard Devree, saw in the same paintings an "emotional approach" that conveyed Olinsky's personal reactions to her subjects.<ref name="New York Times Dec 1944"/>

==Personal life and family==

Olinsky was born on March 11, 1909, in Florence.<ref name="The Day Jun 1984"/><ref name="SSDI 1984"/> Her parents, Ivan Olinsky and Genevieve Karfunkle Olinsky, were both natives of the Russian Empire who had emigrated to the US and become naturalized US citizens.<ref name="Ivan Marriage 1904"/> She had a sister, Lenore Olinsky, who was born in 1907 and died in 2001.<ref name="Lenore Marriage 1930"/><ref name="Lenore Miller death 2001"/> During the 1920s and 1930s, she lived with her parents in an artists' cooperative studio building at 27 West 67th Street.<ref name="The Day Apr 1937"/> In 1950, while traveling in Mexico, Olinsky married a writer named Charles Barteau.<ref name="The Day Apr 1950"/> Olinsky died in her home in Old Lyme on June 15, 1984.<ref name="The Day Jun 1984"/>

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==References== {{Reflist |colwidth=30em |refs=

<ref name="Art Digest Mar 1937">{{cite journal |author= |volume=11 |issue=12 |pages=7–8 |date=1937-03-15 |title=New Names Appear on Honor Roll ofr the National Academy |journal=Art Digest |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_arts-magazine_1937-03-15_11_12/page/5/mode/1up }}</ref>

<ref name="Art Digest Jan 1945">{{cite journal |author= |volume=19 |issue=7 |page=11 |date=1945-01-01 |title=Tosca Olinsky's Bouquets |journal=Art Digest |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_arts-magazine_1945-01-01_19_7/page/10/mode/2up }}</ref>

<ref name="Art Digest Apr 1951">{{cite journal |author=Margaret Breuning |volume=25 |issue=13 |page=7 |date=1951-04-01 |title=National Academy Stages 126th Annual Exhibition |journal=Art Digest |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_arts-magazine_1951-04-01_25_13/page/6/mode/2up }}</ref>

<ref name="Catalog of the 27th Annual Exhibition 1928">{{cite book |author= |title=Catalogue of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture |year=1928 |publisher=Lyme Art Association |page=8 |url=https://archive.org/details/TwentySeventhAnnualExhibitionLAA1928/page/n9/mode/2up }}</ref>

<ref name="Catalog of the 28th Annual Exhibition 1929">{{cite book |author= |title=Catalogue of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture |year=1929 |publisher=Lyme Art Association |page=8 |url=https://archive.org/details/TwentyEighthExhibitionLAA/page/n9/mode/2up }}</ref>

<ref name="Catalog of the 32nd Annual Exhibition 1933">{{cite book |author= |title=Catalogue of the Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture |year=1933 |publisher=Lyme Art Association |page=9 |url=https://archive.org/details/CatalogueoftheThirtySecondAnnualExhibitionLAA1933/page/n9/mode/2up }}</ref>

<ref name="Catalog of the 40th Annual Exhibition 1941">{{cite book |author= |title=Catalogue of the Fortieth Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture |year=1941 |publisher=Lyme Art Association |page=9 |url=https://archive.org/details/CatalogueFortiethAnnualExhibitionLAA1941/page/n1/mode/2up? }}</ref>

<ref name="Manhattan Directory 1957">{{cite book |author= |title=Manhattan, New York City, Telephone Directory |year=1957 |publisher=New York Telephone Company via ancestry |page=1229 |url= }}</ref>

<ref name="In Memoriam; Members' Show 1984">{{cite book |author= |title=In Memoriam; Members' Show |year=1984 |publisher=Lyme Art Association |page=9 |url=https://archive.org/details/InMemoriamPamphletLAA1984/page/n1/mode/2up }}</ref>

<ref name="PAFA Exhibition Record 1988">{{cite book |author= |title=The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |year=1984 |publisher=Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia |page=353 |url=https://archive.org/details/annualexhibition0003unse/page/353/mode/1up?q=%22olinsky%2C+tosca%22 }}</ref>

<ref name="Jacobsen Biographical Index 2002">{{cite book |author= |title=Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists |year=2002 |publisher=A.J. Publications, Carrollton, Texas |page=2407 |url=https://archive.org/details/jacobsensbiograp0001unse/page/2406/mode/2up }}</ref>

<ref name="National Academy">{{cite web | title=Tosca Olinsky | website=National Academy of Design | date= | url=https://nationalacademy.emuseum.com/people/878/tosca-olinsky/objects | access-date=2024-08-28}}</ref>

<ref name="Ivan G Olinsky">{{cite web | title=Ivan G. Olinsky | website=Smithsonian American Art Museum | date= | url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/ivan-g-olinsky-3620 | access-date=2024-08-28}}</ref>

<ref name="Lyme Art Colony">{{cite web | title=The Lyme Art Colony | website=Florence Griswold Museum | date= | url=https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/learn/our-history/lyme-art-colony/ | access-date=2024-09-02}}</ref>

<ref name="Childe Hassam American Impressionist">{{cite web | title=Childe Hassam: American Impressionist | website=Metropolitan Museum of Art | date= | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/childe-hassam-american-impressionist | access-date=2024-09-02}}</ref>

<ref name="Tosca Olinsky Invaluable">{{cite web | title=Tosca Olinsky | date= | url=https://www.invaluable.com/artist/olinsky-tosca-bmf8x5rw0u/ | access-date=2024-09-02}}</ref>

<ref name="Ivan Marriage 1904">{{cite web | title=Ivan Olinsky | website=New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938, via familysearch | date=1904-06-29 | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24MG-S9N | access-date=2024-08-28}}</ref>

<ref name="Ivan Passport 1908">{{cite web | title=Ivan G. Olinsky | website=Passport Applications, January 2, 1906-March 31, 1925, via familysearch | date=1908-03-28 | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-2J67 | access-date=2024-09-08}}</ref>

<ref name="Lenore Marriage 1930">{{cite web | title=Lenore Olinsky | website=New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938, via familysearch | date=1908-03-28 | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:248Q-VQY | access-date=2024-09-11}}</ref>

<ref name="Foreign Travel 1948">{{cite web | title=Tosca Olinsky | website=New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957, via familysearch | date=1948-03-29 | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP8-QZ8G | access-date=2024-08-28}}</ref>

<ref name="SSDI 1984">{{cite web | title=Tosca Barteau | website=United States Social Security Death Index, via familysearch | date=1984 | url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JP3J-B3T | access-date=2024-08-28}}</ref>

<ref name="Lenore Miller death 2001">{{cite web | title=Lenore O. Miller | website=Connecticut Death Index, 1949–2001, via familysearch | date=2001 | url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZPC-79C | access-date=2024-08-28}}</ref>

<ref name="Hartford Courant Jul 1930">{{cite news |title=Current Art Activities in Connecticut |author=Rochelle Brackman |work=Hartford Courant |location=Hartford, Connecticut |date=1930-07-27 |page=29 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="Springfield Republican Aug 1930">{{cite news |title=Lyme (Ct.) Now Holding 29th Annual Exhibition |author=Elizabeth Belle Tyler |work=Springfield Republican |location=Springfield, Massachusetts |date=1930-08-03 |page=56 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="Montclair Times Jun 1933">{{cite news |title=Museum Exhibits Modern Paintings |author= |work=Montclair Times |location=Montclair, New Jersey |date=1933-06-09 |page=1 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Sun Mar 1934">{{cite news |title=O'Hara Shows His Late Work |author= |work=New York Sun |location=New York, New York |date=1934-03-22 |page= |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Post Jan 1935">{{cite news |title=Exhibits of Paintings and Watercolors |author= |work=New York Post |location=New York, New York |date=1935-01-26 |page= |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Sun Mar 1935">{{cite news |title=Attractions in the Galleries |author= |work=New York Sun |location=New York, New York |date=1935-03-02 |page= |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Sep 1935">{{cite news |title=Youngest Artist Exhibiting at Old Lyme, Tosca Olinsky, Wins Autumn Award |author= |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1935-09-10 |page=14 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Apr 1937">{{cite news |title=Lyme |author= |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1937-04-30 |page=2 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Oct 1940">{{cite news |title=Eleven Win Art Prizes; Allied Artists Award Them as Annual Exhibition Opens |author= |work=New York Times |location=New York, New York |date=1940-10-31 |page=20 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Aug 1941">{{cite news |title=In the Realm of Art; All Quiet on the August Front |author= |work=New York Times |location=New York, New York |date=1941-08-10 |page=X7 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Aug 17 1941">{{cite news |title=Rounding Up Some of the Colonies |author=Edward Alden Jewell |work=New York Times |location=New York, New York |date=1941-08-17 |page=X7 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Feb 1943">{{cite news |title=At the Galleries |author=A.Z. Kruse |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |location=Brooklyn, New York |date=1943-02-21 |page=32 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Feb 16 1943">{{cite news |title=Landscape Takes $500 Altman Prize |author=Edward Alden Jewell |work=New York Times |location=New York, New York |date=1943-02-16 |page=13 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Feb 28 1943">{{cite news |title=A Reviewer's Notebook |author=Howard Devree |work=New York Times |location=New York, New York |date=1943-02-28 |page=X8 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="Daily Republican Jul 1943">{{cite news |title=Lyme Art Association's Forty-Second Annual |author= |work=Springfield Daily Republican |location=Springfield, Massachusetts |date=1943-07-25 |page=42 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Sun Dec 1944">{{cite news |title=Various Doings in Art |author=Melville Upton |work=New York Sun |location=New York, New York |date=1944-12-23 |page= |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Dec 1944">{{cite news |title=Recently Opened Exhibitions |author=Howard Devree |work=New York Times |location=New York, New York |date=1944-12-24 |page=32 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Dec 1944">{{cite news |title=At the Galleries |author=A.Z. Kruse |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |location=Brooklyn, New York |date=1944-12-24 |page=18 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="Brooklyn Daily Eagle Apr 1945">{{cite news |title=At the Art Galleries |author=A.Z. Kruse |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |location=Brooklyn, New York |date=1945-04-29 |page=26 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="Hartford Courant Oct 1947">{{cite news |title=Paintings by Four Take Prizes at Athenaeum Exhibit |author= |work=Hartford Courant |location=Hartford, Connecticut |date=1947-10-05 |page=10 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="Christian Science Monitor Aug 1948">{{cite news |title=[Image Caption] Still-Life by Tosca Olinsky |author= |work=Christian Science Monitor |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=1948-08-10 |page=8 |quote= |url=https://archive.org/details/per_christian-science-monitor_1948-08-10_40_217/page/8/mode/2up }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Aug 1949">{{cite news |title=Florence Griswold House [Display Ad] |author= |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1949-08-13 |page=9 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Apr 1950">{{cite news |title=Old Lyme |author= |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1950-04-18 |page=18 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Sep 1951">{{cite news |title=Six New Artists Feature Essex Art Group Exhibit |author= |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1951-09-01 |page=2 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Jul 1956">{{cite news |title=Radical by Standards of Other Years, Lyme Art Show Holds to Conservatism |author=Gregory Smith |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1956-07-18 |page=26 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="New York Times Jan 1957">{{cite news |title=Art: Audubon Winners: Forty Awards Made in Field of Almost 400 Entries in 15th Annual Show |author=Howard Devree |work=New York Times |location=New York, New York |date=1957-01-17 |page=26 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Apr 1958">{{cite news |title=Tosca Olinsky: Her Works Show Taste and Skill |author=Tom Ingle |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1958-04-21 |page=4 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Mar 1969">{{cite news |title=Old Lyme |author= |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1969-03-29 |page=2 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Sep 1971">{{cite news |title=Tosca Olinsky Works to Be Shown |author= |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1971-09-21 |page=15 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Oct 1978">{{cite news |title=Recent Works by Tosca Olinsky [Display Ad] |author= |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1978-10-27 |page=12 |quote= }}</ref>

<ref name="The Day Jun 1984">{{cite news |title=Old Lyme |author= |work=The Day |location=New London, Connecticut |date=1984-06-15 |page= |quote= }}</ref>

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