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Xiomaro’s solo exhibition features his photographs of the cultural landscape at Connecticut’s Weir Farm National Historical Park. The collection was commissioned by the National Park Service and will be on view at the museum’s Noonan Gallery on the second floor. The exhibition complements the show in the adjacent gallery on American landscape painting to celebrate Frederic Church’s 200th anniversary.
Weir Farm was home to three generations of artists from 1882 to 2005. It began with Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), a leader in the development of American Impressionism who painted on the property with artist friends such as Childe Hassam and John Twachtman. The legacy was continued by his daughter, painter Dorothy Weir Young, and her husband, sculptor Mahonri Young, followed by painters Sperry and Doris Andrews. Today, artists and visitors alike continue to draw inspiration from the same historic buildings, gardens, stone walls, and pond set amidst the rocky fields and woods at Weir Farm. The U.S. Mint commemorated the park on the reverse of the 2020 quarter.
More information about this iconic landscape and the artists inspired by it is available in the book Weir Farm National Historic Site (Arcadia Publishing).
All photographs are available for exhibition and purchase. Contact Xiomaro
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