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Connecticut Farm,
1886
Julian Alden Weir, American, 1852–1919
y1942-63
In 1882, in exchange for a painting and ten dollars, Julian Alden Weir acquired the 153-acre farm in Branchville, Connecticut, that was to serve as his home and frequent subject for more than three decades. During this period, Weir’s art evolved away from the academic style of his training, begun in the West Point studio of his father, Robert Walter Weir, and toward the Impressionism he came to admire following study in France. Connecticut Farm was painted in the midst of this transition; its subject—a peasant-like figure in a rural landscape—recalls the artist’s early work, while its style anticipates the hazy tonalities and Japanese-inspired compositions of Weir’s mature career as a pioneer of American Impressionism.
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Title
Connecticut Farm
Dates
1886
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
89.2 x 114.5 cm. (35 1/8 x 45 1/16 in.)
frame: 103.8 × 131.3 × 7 cm (40 7/8 × 51 11/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Albert E. McVitty, Class of 1898
Object Number
y1942-63
Signatures
Signed in black, lower right: J. Alden Weir
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