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

Rebecca Foster; Caroline M. Welsh; Theodore E. Stebbins; Stephen Bennett Phillips; Kathleen V. Jameson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815608098 ISBN 13: 9780815608097

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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 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 compiled by his daughter, Nina Weston Foster, curator of the Harold Weston Foundation, 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. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art at the Fogg Art Museum, provides a critical analysis of Weston as a twentieth-century American modernist painter. The biographical essay by Weston's art historian granddaughter, Rebecca Foster, follows the unfolding of a career in parallel to the unfolding of a life. Weston's rich technique is explored by Stephen B.Phillips, curator at the Phillips Collection, in an in-depth analysis of the painting.

About this title

About the Author:

Rebecca Foster is an art historian and granddaughter of Harold Weston. Caroline M. Welsh is chief curator and curator of art at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. She is the editor of Adirondack Prints and Printmakers: The Call of the Wild, also copublished by Syracuse University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0815608098
• ISBN 13: 9780815608097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136