Currently not on view
Two Women Sewing,
ca. 1885
Julian Alden Weir, American, 1852–1919
x1944-549
Weir studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before becoming a successful landscape painter. In the 1880s, he began working in watercolor during summers at his farm in Branchville, Connecticut—the likely location for this domestic interior with his wife and her mother. Weir was less interested in the specifics of setting or sitters than in the impressionistic light
effects and the tranquil mood created.
effects and the tranquil mood created.
Information
Title
Two Women Sewing
Dates
ca. 1885
Maker
Medium
Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
25.4 x 35.3 cm (10 x 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1944-549
Signatures
Signed in watercolor, lower right: Weir
Culture
Type
Materials
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 132
- Christine Bartolo, The ten: works on paper: catalogue and exhibition, (Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980). , cat. no. 18 (illus.)
- Picturing gentility: portraits of women in American art, (Glens Falls, NY: Hyde Collection, 2000).
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 335, checklist no. 763 (illus.)
