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	J. Alden Weir
		Julian Alden Weir (August 30, 1852- December 8, 1919) was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) impressionist painter.
		- Weir's former home near Wilton, Connecticut (additional info and facts about Wilton, Connecticut) and the location where he painted most frequently, now under the jursidiction of the National Park Service (An agency of the Interior Department responsible for the National Parks).
		He was a member of the Cos Cob School (additional info and facts about Cos Cob School) and the Ten American Painters (additional info and facts about Ten American Painters).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/j/j._alden_weir.htm (95 words)

	The Florence Griswold Museum Exhibitions
		This extraordinary gift includes twenty etchings and drypoints by J. Alden Weir, Philip Kappel, and Kerr Eby that form the core of this exhibition.
		J. Alden Weir owned a farm in Branchville, Connecticut (now known as Weir Farm).
		This drypoint by Weir shows the influence of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), one of the most influential artists of his time.
	www.flogris.org /exhibitions/04Etchings.html (1690 words)

	SAAM :: Have a Question? Find an Answer
		Julian Alden Weir was born at West Point, New York, the son of Robert Weir, the longtime drawing master at the military academy.
		Alden later studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and in Paris worked at the École des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérôme. From the outset he was set on a course of academic conservatism.
		The younger Weir learned to draw at his father's knee before traveling to Paris in 1873 to study with Jean Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts.
	americanart.si.edu /search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=5302 (745 words)

	Weir Farm: Home of an American Impressionist--Reading 2
		J. Alden Weir’s farm in Branchville became the favored retreat of many important American painters.
		Perhaps the painter closest to Weir was his half-brother, John Ferguson Weir, a member of the Hudson River School and the first Dean of Fine Arts at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
		Weir welcomed his friends and contemporaries to his "little house among the rocks" for painting, conversation, and good fellowship.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/22weir/22facts2.htm (658 words)

	Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc - American Art - Julian Alden Weir (1852 -1919)
		Julian Alden Weir was the son of historical painter, Robert W. Weir, who served as the drawing instructor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York for over forty years.
		Many of the Weirs were painters, but J. Alden certainly established the career of most renown.
		He originally studied painting under his father and later worked in artist estates of his brother, John Ferguson Weir, who went on to head the Department of Art at Yale University from 1869 to 1913.
	borghi.org /american/jweir.html (416 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online
		Like his older brother, John Ferguson Weir, a painter who taught for years at Yale, Julian Alden Weir was trained by his father before studying at the National Academy of Design and in Paris.
		Weir was a founder of the Society of American Artists and The Ten American Painters, president of the National Academy of Design and the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, and active in numerous other art organizations.
		Weir Farm is special in that visiting the site, to walk the paths and admire the historic structures, make viewing the artwork all the more meaningful.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /GH0-09-12-2000-12-01-44 (3036 words)

	7-20-00.html
		And in the 1890s, and for some forty or fifty years thereafter, the train tracks led to the farm of one of their own, Julian Alden Weir.
		Alden Weir was one of the first in this country to espouse Impressionism.
		Weir was born in 1852 and died, 250 paintings later, in 1919.
	users.1st.net /jimlane/2000arch/7-20-00.html (655 words)

	Cultural Attractions - Wilton Chamber of Commerce
		Also, tours of the J. Alden Weir and Mahonri Young studios and the overall site are given.
		Weir acquired the property in 1882, then built a painting studio, twice enlarged the house and developed the landscape into an interesting palette with stone walls, woods and gardens.
		Weir Farm National Historic Site is one of only two National Park Service locations out of 379 that is devoted to an American artist, and the only one devoted primarily to an American painter.
	www.wiltonchamber.com /gi_cultural.asp (492 words)

	Weir Farm National Historic Site - Areaparks.com
		To American Impressionist painter J. Alden Weir (1852 &; 1919), his beloved Connecticut farm provided him with the means to explore his emotional and spiritual impressions of nature.
		Weir and his contemporaries (such as Childe Hassam and John Twachtman) were inspired by French Impressionism& emphasis on painting outdoors and trying to capture light and motion in landscape.
		Weir Farm is at once a memory of our artistic past, a studio space for artists now, and a promise for continued inspiration in our artistic future.
	weirfarm.areaparks.com (405 words)

	JULIAN ALDEN WEIR 1852
		Weir's reaction is a reflection of his training from 1873 to 1877 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Jean-L6on G6r6me, who emphasized the careful observation of detail, precise drawing, and high finish that was challenged by the Impressionists.
		Alden Weir is best remembered as a leading s American Impressionist, but he did not always embrace this progressive style.
		The peasants were bawling at me at the top of their lungs.116 There Weir was able to join his fellow travelers, who applauded his great effort.
	www.butlerart.com /pc_book/pages/julian_alden_weir_1852.htm (582 words)

	HMA:
		Weir Farm, purchased in 1882 by the artist J. Alden Weir, occupies a prominent place within the history of American art.
		Alden Weir had a lifelong commitment to nurturing other artists.
		Using Weir Farm as an open air studio, participating artists work over the course of a year to create a cohesive body of work influenced by his or her own experiences of the Farm’s cultural and natural resources.
	www.hctc.commnet.edu /artmuseum/exhibits/2002/weirfarm/weirfarm.html (733 words)

	Julian Alden Weir Online
		Julian Alden Weir in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		Julian Alden Weir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Julian Alden Weir at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. John Twachtman, drawing, ca.1895
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/weir_julian_alden.html (252 words)

	Search Results for "Alden"
		...27, 1868.Weir FarmHSConn.199074 (30)Home and studio of the American impressionist painter J. Alden Weir.Whitman MissionHSSW Wash.193698 (40)Site of the mission of...
		He studied art in Kansas City, in New York City under Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, and in Paris.
		Alden, John, c.1599-1687, Puritan settler in Plymouth Colony.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Alden (263 words)

	Fairfield University :: University College at Fairfield University offers lectures about Weir Farm
		"Who is J. Alden Weir and why is there a national park named after him in Connecticut?" asks Wilton resident Joan Kaskell, historian and lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
		She will deliver an introduction to the life and artistic style of the man behind Weir Farm in her presentation, "American Impressionists: J. Alden Weir and His Circle."
		"This first talk of the series is intended to provide audiences an artistic context for J. Alden Weir and his contemporaries," Kaskell said.
	www.fairfield.edu /x4600.xml (541 words)

	19th and 20th Century Impressionists
		Weir, with John Twachtman and Theodore Robinson, was an artist whose knowledge of contemporary French painting encouraged the development of Impressionism in the United States.
		Alden Weir,” Art Amateur, 24, Feb. 1891, 56.
		Weir was the son and brother of well-known painters.
	www.delart.org /damdocent/19and20imp.html (4696 words)

	A Connecticut Place: Weir Farm, An American Painter's Rural Retreat
		The exhibition is curated by two leading experts on J. Alden Weir, Hildegard Cummings, Curator of Education (retired), the William Benton Museum of Art, and Harold Spencer, Professor Emeritus, the University of Connecticut.
		Julian Alden Weir was one of the founders of the Ten American Painters, along with his friends
		Alden Weir (1852-1919), done at or near the Branchville, Connecticut, retreat that was his home and workplace.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa569.htm (839 words)

	DODD, LIEBERMAN SECURE $150,000 GRANT FOR WEIR FARM TRUST
		Weir Farm consists of historically significant landscape and structures associated with the life and work of the influential American painter J. Alden Weir (1852-1919) and are depicted in many significant works of art by Weir, his prominent colleagues, and by artists who followed including Weir’s son-in-law, the sculptor Mahonri Young.
		The Caretaker’s site was part of Weir’s original farm acquired in 1882, is included in the J. Alden Weir National Historic District, and is part of Weir Farm NHS.
		Works created at Weir Farm in the 19th and 20th centuries are seen in most major museums around the country.
	dodd.senate.gov /press/Releases/05/0322.htm (418 words)

	Weir Farm: Home of an American Impressionist--Supplementary Resources
		Alden Weir: An American Impressionist (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983), or J.
		Alden Weir: A Place of His Own (Storrs, Connecticut: William Benton Museum of Art, 1991), an exhibit catalog available at the William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
		Weir Farm National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park System.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/22weir/22lrnmore.htm (367 words)

	Weir Farm National Historic Site Establishment Act of 1990
		The 62 acre historic site contains the home and studio of the founder of American impressionism, J. Alden Weir and this rich landscape is the inspiration for many of his paintings.
		Because the land is adjacent to undeveloped State and Town land, the non-profit Weir Farm Heritage Trust can ensure that the proposed visitor center and gallery will be in keeping with the pastoral theme of the historic site.
		President, today I join with Senator Lieberman in introducing legislation to add up to 15 acres to the Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut for the creation of a visitor center and art gallery.
	dodd.senate.gov /press/Speeches/105_98/0305.htm (402 words)

	Norwalk River Pictorial Atlas
		An unnamed brook flows north to Candees Pond from the Weir Farm National Historic Site, the spot where J. Alden Weir and many of his friends and colleagues produced some of their fine impressionist paintings about a century ago.
		J. Alden Weir's pond, east of Nod Hill Road.
		Both of these ponds were named for their 20th-century owners: Norman John and Howard Candees.
	www.norwalkriver.org /cooper.htm (182 words)

	The University of Delaware Press
		Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) was one of the first and most distinguished of the American impressionist painters, but by the middle of this century his artistic accomplishments had been all but forgotten.
		The reputation Weir achieved through his paintings led to his assuming the directorship of the Yale School of the Fine Arts.
		The journal begins as an accurate rendering of the author's daily life and ends as a tragic reflection of a failing memory and a deteriorating mind.
	www2.lib.udel.edu /udpress/jtitles.htm (1240 words)

	Art/Museums: The Cos Cob Art Colony, Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore at the National Academy of Design
		Larkin, "an avid antiquarian who pioneered the documentation of American furniture." Robert W. Weir, the Hudson River School painter who taught at West Point stayed at the boarding house in the 1870s and was joined occasionally by his youngest son, J. Alden Weir, whose friend, Twachtman, also boarded with him there in 1878 and 1879.
		Twachtman, Hassam and Weir resigned from the Society of American Artists in 1898 to form with seven of their friends the Ten American Paintings group and William Merritt Chase became a member when Twachtman died in 1902.
		Chase, Twachtman and Weir, in fact, were not the first American Impressionists as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Theodore Robinson predate them, but have their roots much more in France than America.
	www.thecityreview.com /coscob.html (2338 words)

	American Impressionism Along the Connecticut Shore ; Maine Antique Digest, June 2001
		When art teacher John Twachtman, who had been boarding at his friend J. Alden Weir's nearby Branchville home, settled with his family on Round Hill Road in 1890 in central Greenwich, the Cos Cob art colony was born.
		Among the images of women and children is a charming Childe Hassam painting of a woman in a Japanese kimono looking at a bowl of goldfish, reflecting the experimentation with Oriental motifs by various members of the group.
		Considered a testing ground for new styles and themes, and with an artist's artist such as Twachtman and his close friend Weir on hand to give lessons, the colony was active for about 20 or so years, eventually evolving into the Greenwich Society of Artists.
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/cosc0601.htm (771 words)

	American Impressionism: John Twachtman - NGA
		In 1893, his work was included in an American Art Galleries exhibition with that of J. Alden Weir, and he also won a medal at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
		During this visit Twachtman spent time in Holland, painting and etching with his friend J. Alden Weir.
		From 1883 to 1885 Twachtman studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and spent the summers painting in Normandy and at Arques-la-Bataille, near Dieppe.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/horo_twatchman.shtm (573 words)

	J. Alden Weir with Sargent at Weir's farm Ridgefield, Connecticut
		Alden Weir with Sargent at Weir's farm Ridgefield, Connecticut
		The photo is of John visiting his old friend from his Paris days, J. Alder Weir.
		The photo was undated from the Weir Farm but Weir died in 1919 so it might have been around that time.
	www.jssgallery.org /Resources/Photos/Sargent/J_Alden_Weir_and_Sargent.htm (91 words)

	bio2.htm
		The couple visited England, Belgium, and Germany, but spent most of their time in Holland, where they painted in Dordrecht and its surrounding communities with J. Alden Weir and his brother John Ferguson Weir.
		By the winter of 1888, Twachtman had moved east once more, and was spending time visiting Branchville, Connecticut, where J. Alden Weir lived.
		In 1889, Twachtman and Weir held a joint exhibition and sale of their works at the Ortgies Gallery in New York, and four years later, the American Art Gallery featured their work in a comparative exhibition with that of Monet and Paul Besnard.
	www.johnhtwachtman.com /bio2.htm (466 words)

	John Ferguson Weir
		John F. Weir (1841-1926) and his brother, J. Alden Weir, studied with their father, Robert Walter Weir.
		After studies in Europe, John Weir taught at Yale and became the first Director of the Yale Art School.
	mattatuckmuseum.org /collections/art/jfweir.htm (45 words)

	American Impressionism: September Sunshine - NGA
		Letter to J. Alden Weir, 2 January 1885, quoted in Kathleen A. Pyne, "John Twachtman and the Therapeutic Landscape," in Chotner, Peters, and Pyne 1989, 53.
		As his contemporaries understood, Twachtman was one of the most advanced, most modern artists of his generation; J. Alden Weir, for instance, said, in the year after Twachtman's death, that he "had been in advance of his age," and Thomas Dewing said at the same time that he was "too modern.
		for, as he wrote Weir, expressing his idealist subjectivity, "Ten thousand pictures come and go every day [in his mind] and those are the only complete pictures painted, pictures that shall never be polluted by paint and canvas."
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/horo_045.htm (544 words)

	J. Alden Weir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Julian Alden Weir (1850-1919) was an American impressionist painter.
		Weir Farm National Historic Site (http://www.nps.gov/wefa/) - Weir's former home near Wilton, Connecticut and the location where he painted most frequently, now under the jursidiction of the National Park Service.
		He was a member of the Cos Cob School.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/J._Alden_Weir (111 words)

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