The youngest of sixteen children of Robert W. Weir, artist and art instructor at West Point Military Academy, J. Alden Weir became one of the leading early American Impressionists. However, his art... Read full biography
The youngest of sixteen children of Robert W. Weir, artist and art instructor at West Point Military Academy, J. Alden Weir became one of the leading early American Impressionists. However, his art education began with training in the traditional basic styles and methods from his father. Throughout... Read full biography
The youngest of sixteen children of Robert W. Weir, artist and art instructor at West Point Military Academy, J. Alden Weir became one of the leading early American Impressionists. However, his art education began with training in the traditional basic styles and methods from his father. Throughout his career subject matter included landscape, still lifes, and portraits. Although his landscapes increasingly reflected his adoption of Impressionism, his portraits and still lifes remained more... Read full biography
The youngest of sixteen children of Robert W. Weir, artist and art instructor at West Point Military Academy, J. Alden Weir became one of the leading early American Impressionists. However, his art education began with training in the traditional basic styles and methods from his father. Throughout his career subject matter included landscape, still lifes, and portraits. Although his landscapes increasingly reflected his adoption of Impressionism, his portraits and still lifes remained more realistic and conservative. Weir also completed murals including ones in the Liberal Arts Building of the 1893 Chicago Exposition. They received much acclaim, but mural painting was not a specialty for him. At 18, he enrolled at the National Academy... Read full biography
The youngest of sixteen children of Robert W. Weir, artist and art instructor at West Point Military Academy, J. Alden Weir became one of the leading early American Impressionists. However, his art education began with training in the traditional basic styles and methods from his father. Throughout his career subject matter included landscape, still lifes, and portraits. Although his landscapes increasingly reflected his adoption of Impressionism, his portraits and still lifes remained more realistic and conservative. Weir also completed murals including ones in the Liberal Arts Building of the 1893 Chicago Exposition. They received much acclaim, but mural painting was not a specialty for him. At 18, he enrolled at the National Academy School in New York. From 1873 to 1877, he studied in Europe, part of the time in Paris with Jean Leon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (239)
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Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America's Stories (National Park Service)
2016
Bacharach, Joan (General Editor)
160 pages (color)
A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Paintings from the Hainsworth Collection
2005
Love, Richard; Michael Worley, Ph.D
157 pages (color)
The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all
200 pages (color)
American Artists Abroad and Their Inspiration: Selections from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
2004
64 pages (color)
Women on the Verge: The Culture of Nineteenth-Century America (Exhibition catalog)
2004
100 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
The American Artist in Connecticut The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
The Florence Griswold Museum
144 pages (color)
Cornish Art of the Past Century: Art for Art's Sake
2001
Gilbert-Smith, Alma
24 pages (color)
The Cos Cob Art Colony Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore
2001
Larkin, Susan G.
246 pages (color)
American Impressionists Abroad And at Home
2001
Weinberg, H Barbara; S Larkin
0 pages
Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Spanierman Gallery
0 pages
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Carl W Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester
1999
Love, Richard H
927 pages (color)
The Marshall Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Love, Richard H; William H. Marshall
108 pages (color)
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
The Tile Club: And the Aesthetic Movement in America
1999
Pisano, Ronald; M Apicello
112 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Espana: American Artists and the Spanish Experience (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Boone, M Elizabeth
112 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
1996
Burns, Sarah
380 pages
Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire
1996
Colby, Virginia Reed; James B. Atkinson
526 pages
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Art and the Higher Life Painting and Evolutionary Thought*
1996
Pyne, Kathleen
416 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sussman, Elizabeth
144 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Impressionist New York
1994
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
American Painters in the Age of Impressionism
1994
Neff, Emily/G T M Shackelford
144 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
American Impressionism and Realis The Painting of Modern Life 1885-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Weinberg, H Barbara (others)
400 pages (color)
Women of Fashion French and American Images of Leisure 1880-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Weisberg, Gabriel P
188 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Gerdts, William H
282 pages (color)
Hidden Treasures American Paintings from Florida Colllections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Leeds, Valerie Ann
72 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
J Alden Weir A Place of His Own (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Cummings, Hildegard (others)
96 pages (color)
Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991
Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.
271 pages (color)
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
American Impressionism from the Sheldon Memorial Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Gerdts, William (Essay); George Neubert, (Editor)
79 pages (color)
Impressionism in America The Ten American Painters
1991
Hiesinger, Ulrich W
256 pages (color)
American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor
204 pages (color)
American Impressionists
1991
Montgomery, Elizabeth
112 pages (color)
American Impressionist Masterpieces
1991
Peters, Lisa N
119 pages (color)
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 pages (color)
American Views Essays on American Art
1991
Wilmerding, John
357 pages (color)
World Impressonism: The International Movement 1860-1920
1990
Broude, Norma (ed)
424 pages (color)
Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from PAFA
1990
Danly, Susan
91 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Impressionism
1990
Gerdts, William H
163 pages (color)
Ten American Painters (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gerdts, William H (others)
187 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters
1990
Halsby, Julian
223 pages (color)
Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation
1990
Lang, Gladys & Kurt
437 pages
The Spencer Collection of American Art/An Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Spanierman Gallery
64 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
American Pastels In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1989
Bolger, Doreen (others)
247 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)
140 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Idle Hours Americans at Leisure 1865-1914
1988
Pisano, Ronald G
155 pages (color)
Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem
1988
Wooden, Howard E
212 pages
In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts
120 pages (color)
The Edwin C Shaw Collection of American Impressionist & Tonalist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Carr, Carolyn K
140 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection
1986
Novak, Barbara
326 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1986
Salinger, Margaretta
200 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Americans in the Arts 1890-1920
1985
Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab
672 pages
The Genteel Tradition: Impressionist and Realist Art from the Iran and Nancy Koger Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Keyes, Donald D
101 pages (color)
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920 (Volume 1)
1985
Pisano, Ronald G
167 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
American Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerdts, William H
336 pages (color)
American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Kopitske, Christine (Editor)
144 pages (color)
American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference
1984
Reaves, Wendy Wick
285 pages
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gerome
1984
Weinberg, H Barbara
113 pages
American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers
1983
Adams, Clinton
228 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
1983
Brown, Milton W
240 pages (color)
J Alden Weir An American Impressionist (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Burke, Doreen Bolger
313 pages (color)
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1983
National Academy of Design
175 pages (color)
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
Directions in American Painting 1875-1925 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Rodriguez Roque, Oswaldo
112 pages (color)
Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Sellin, David / J K Ballinger
229 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries
1981
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
163 pages
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
America in Print 1796-1941 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
128 pages (color)
Animals in American Art 1880's-1980's (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nassau County Museum
64 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Denver Art Museum Major Works in the Collection
1981
Ritchie, Margaret
304 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art
1981
Williams, William James
256 pages (color)
American Flower Painting
1980
Anderson, Dennis R
84 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
American Impressionism: The Henry Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Gerdts, William H
179 pages (color)
Connecticut and American Impressionism (William Benton Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Spencer, Harold; Susan Larkin, Jeffrey Andersen (Essays)
184 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
American Drawings: Paul Magriel Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eisler, Colin
38 pages
American Imagination and Symbolist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eldredge, Charles C
176 pages (color)
The U S and the Impressionist Era (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Karlstrom, Paul
48 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Immortal Eight American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show
1979
Perlman, Bennard B
224 pages (color)
The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930
1979
Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan
96 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
The New Muses Art in American Culture 1865-1920
1978
Morgan, H Wayne
232 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
American Art at the Century
1977
Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis
0 pages
American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show
1977
Prown, Jules David; John Walker (Intro)
133 pages (color)
American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present
1977
Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose
277 pages (color)
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11)
1977
Weinberg, H Barbara (intro)
240 pages
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
American Cornucopia 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Brindle, John V/Sally Secrest
48 pages (color)
The Ten
1976
Pierce, Patricia Jobe
201 pages (color)
American Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University
1976
Ross, Barbara T
132 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan
1976
Tracy, Berry and Howat, John
82 pages (color)
A Panorama of American Painting The John J McDonough Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bullard, E John
119 pages (color)
American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue
1975
Chambers, Bruce W
127 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward)
284 pages
American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum