Wardle, Marian ; Brigham Young University Museum of Art
The Weir Family, 1820-1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art
Provo, UT and Hanover, NH, Brigham Young University Museum of Art ; In association with University Press of New England, 2012. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, black DJ with color illustration. XII, 193 pp. Over 150 illustrations in color and BW. Includes 7 essays, a familiy chronology and a genealogy, a bibliography, list of exhibited works. From the jacket: Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889) and his sons John Ferguson Weir (1841-1926) and Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) saw themselves as heirs to European art traditions and repeatedly crossed the Atlantic to connect with their artistic heritage. Yet they lived, painted, and taught in New York and New England, where they were leaders in American art. Through letters, diaries, histories, and paintings, this book examines the lives of the American men and women of the Weir art dynasty and their explorations of the wider world--from the Hudson River Valley to London, Paris, and Rome. Contents as follows: Introduction. The Weir family at home and abroad / Marian Wardle -- Robert Walter Weir and the sense of place / Leo G. Mazow -- Enthralled and dismayed by Paris : Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) in the transatlantic world / Hollis Clayson -- Becoming an artist in the modern world / Lois Marie Fink -- Cosmopolitans all? : The Weirs amid a world of others / Robert W. Rydell -- Engaging science and industry : tradition, modernity, and the Weirs / Betsy Fahlman -- Women of substance : the women of the Weir dynasty / Heather Belnap Jensen -- Weir family chronology / Julianne Gough -- Weir family genealogy / Danielle Hurd. As New in shrinkwrap .

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