Weir Farm National Historical Park is Connecticut’s first national park.   and the only one in the United States dedicated to American painting.  The 60-acre park, which straddles Wilton and Ridgefield, preserves the studio, home, and grounds of Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), one of the founders of American Impressionism.

These photographs, commissioned by the National Park Service, show the significant contrast between the rarely-seen vacant interiors of his studio – stark, rustic and ethereal – and the studio restored as a workplace for the creation of paintings seen in world-class museums.  Close-ups of Weir’s paints, brushes, and palettes focus on details that might go unnoticed in their fully furnished setting.  Some views capture the interplay of light and shadow into realms of abstraction.

For Peter Trippi, the Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, “the photographs of architecture and interiors are not only beautiful, but also somehow reveal something deeper and more significant about the structure’s atmosphere, sometimes even its spirit.”  Senator Joseph Lieberman, who sponsored the legislation for the park’s creation, noted that through the artistic photographs “people around the world can and will better appreciate Weir Farm as the only U.S. national park dedicated to American Impressionist painting.”

More information about the history of the studio and its restoration is available in the book Weir Farm National Historic Site (Arcadia Publishing).

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