Article Excerpts: Welcome | Cornered: Debbie Nadolney, Art Market Provincetown | A Contemporary Showcase: CMCA Gets a Fresh Start | Redefining the Sublime: Man vs. Nature at Hall Art | A Cross-Section of Craft: NH Craftsmen Keep It Interesting | Identity and Community at the Crossroads: CCMOA's Summer of Storytelling | Life in the Fast Lane: Eileen Myles at Schoolhouse | Ogunquit Art Association: Members Shine in Summer | Hot Chicks at Silver Circle: Bigger is Better | Bierstadt in New Bedford: An Unlikely Partnership Makes Sense | Photographic Evidence at Griffin: Cassandra Klos' Abductees | Museum of the Massachusetts Landscape: The Trustees' Public Art Initiative | South County Invitational: Showcasing Connections and Contrasts | CoSo's Salute to Summer: From Ship to Shore to Newbury Street | Speaking a Different Language: The Walshes in Williamstown | Everything's … [Read more...] about July/August 2016
Julian Alden Weir
Connecticut’s Native Son
Charting Weir's Artistic Evolution by Kristin Nord Julian Alden Weir’s art was shaped, according to collector Duncan Phillips, by a “reticent idealism,” while at the same time reflecting a wide-ranging, inquiring mind. “Home is the starting place,” said Weir, and for four decades he made this “quiet little house among the rocks,” now the Weir Farm National Historic Site, one of two main summer homes. After marriage into the Baker family in Windham, he split his summer months between the farm in Western Connecticut and the Baker farm in what is known as Connecticut’s “Quiet Corner.” Reared in a large, artistic household, he was the youngest son of Robert W. Weir, longtime drawing instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Like his older brother John Ferguson Weir, a painter who was the director at the Yale School of Art for 40 years, J. Alden Weir … [Read more...] about Connecticut’s Native Son