Misty Landscape

Julian Alden Weir hailed from a family of artists and teachers, including his father Robert Weir, who taught drawing at the Military Academy at West Point, and his brother John Ferguson Weir, who founded the School of Fine Arts at Yale University. Both were renowned artists in their own rights, but young J. Alden Weir veered from their strictly academic path as he began to work in the modern style of Impressionism, becoming one of its foremost American practitioners. He was a member of the artist group known as "The Ten," who banded together in protest of the conservative styles favored by the major art schools and societies at the end of the nineteenth century. Misty Landscape displays a restrained and subtle form of American Impressionism, infused with shades of gray to cast a more somber mood.