Early in his career, critics and collectors widely recognized that Harold Weston (1894-1972), was capturing and saying something unusual in his paintings. "There is a young American painter," wrote Duncan Phillips, "who stirs in me the hope for a re-birth on this new soil of something that was not lost to the art of painting with the passing of Vincent van Gogh." Along with 104 color and ten black-and-white plates of Weston's works, the catalog includes essays that cover myriad aspects of Weston's life and art. The Adirondack Museum's chief curator Caroline M. Welsh explores nature and wilderness preservation as themes in twentieth-century art and places Weston in the context of his contemporaries who painted the Adirondacks. The biographical essay by the exhibition's guest curator Rebecca Foster follows the unfolding of a career in parallel to the unfolding of a life. Weston's rich technique is explored by Stephen Bennett-Phillips, curator at the Phillips Collection, in an analysis of the painting. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art at the Fogg Art Museum, provides an introduction to the catalogue.

Wild Exuberance: Harold Weston's Adirondack Art (Adirondack Museum Books)

Arts & Photography

Welsh, Caroline M.

Foster, Rebecca

History & Criticism

Syracuse University Press

Augmented by scholarly essays on aspects of Weston's painting, this catalog offers over 100 colour plates of his work.

In keeping with a renewed interest in the American artist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), this book for the first time in the literature focuses solely on Kent's Adirondack art. Essays define the man and his art, emphasizing the breadth of his activities over forty-three years in northern New York and the roll played by the Adirondack Wilderness landscape as inspiration and refuge in his life and creative work. Illustrated throughout the text, this volume contributes to Kent scholarship by identifying and interpreting Kent's known Adirondack oeuvre. The bibliography cites national as well as regional sources. This book accompanies an exhibiton of the same title installed at th Adirondack Museum until October, 2000.

The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy

Kent, Rockwell

Ferris, Scott R.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Adirondack Museum

In Search of a National Landscape: William Trost Richards and the Artists' Adirondacks 1855 - 1870 accompanies the first exhibition devoted to William T. Richards's paintings of the Adirondack region, a hitherto little-known body of beautiful and important landscapes. Two essays by Linda S. Ferber and Caroline M. Welsh, chronicle Richards's discovery and interpretation of the region from the detailed wilderness landscapes of mid-century to his painterly impressions of Whiteface and Lake Placid in the late plein-air oil sketches and set Richards's work in the context of his contemporaries and colleagues who joined him in a quest for a national landscape. Generously illustrated, this volume will be of interest to art and social historians as well as collectors and those who appreciate American art.

In Search of a National Landscape: William Trost Richards and the Artists' Adirondacks, 1850-1870

Ferber, Linda S.

Museum

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