A Connecticut Place: Weir Farm, An American Painter's Rural Retreat

A Connecticut Place: Weir Farm, An American Painter's Rural Retreat is a primary text on the 19th century American artist J. Alden Weir and his Branchville, CT home, now known as Weir Farm National Historic Site. The 116-page soft-bound, 9" x 12" catalogue that accompanied the same-titled exhibition, is amply illustrated in color and black and white. With an introduction by Nicolai Cikovsky, Curator of American and British Art at the National Gallery of Art, essays by the Exhibition Curators Hildegard Cummings and Harold Spencer, both leading experts on Weir, and by Elizabeth Milroy, Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University, A Connecticut Place presents Weir's art within the social, intellectual and physical environment in which it was produced. It also presents Weir's Branchville home as a creative focus for his art and a gathering place for many prominent members of the turn-of-the-century American art community, among them Childe Hassam, John Twachtman, Emil and Denis Carlsen, Albert Pinkham Ryder, John Ferguson Weir and John Singer Sargent.