Overview
Weir stands as one of America’s prominent and highly recognized American Impressionists. He was a close friend of John Henry Twachtman, Child Hassam and Emil Carlsen. He is known for soft impressionist Connecticut landscape paintings and for his figural works which are quiet and elegant in nature. While he is historically important and is on the avant-garde and early side of our impressionist movement, he has not achieved some of the commercial success that Twachtman and Hassam have seen in the marketplace. The answers are found on his canvases, and this lack of commercial success affords astute and sophisticated buyers with great opportunities, if his works appeal to them.
Memberships
American Watercolor Society
Artists Aid Society
Association of American Painters and Sculptors, President, 1913
Century Association
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts
Cornish, New Hampshire Colony
Lotos Club
New York Etching Club
National Academy of Design, Associate, 1885
National Academy of Design, Member 1186, President 1915-1917
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Ten American Painters
Exhibitions
Paris Salon, 1882 (prize)
Paris Exposition, 1889 (medal), 1900 (medal)
American Art Association, 1889 (prize)
Carnegie Institute, 1897 (medal)
Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (medal)
St. Louis Exposition, 1904 (gold), (medal)
National Academy of Design, 1906 (gold)
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1910 (prize), 1913 (medal)
Art Institute of Chicago, 1912 (medal)
Armory Show, 1913
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1914 (gold), (prize)
Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 (prize)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1924 (memorial retrospective)
Museums and Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago
Brigham Young University, Utah
Brooklyn Institute, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Fogg Art Museum, Massachusetts
Luxembourg Museum, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Rhode Island School of Design
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Connecticut
Worcester Museum of Art, Massachusetts