Moonlight
Julian Alden Weir
c. 1905
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.) framed: 81.6 x 71.8 x 7.3 cm (32 1/8 x 28 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1954.4.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Julian Alden Weir · 1852–1919
Julian Alden Weir (1852–1919) was one of the central figures of American Impressionism, a painter whose luminous canvases helped transform the reception of modern French art in the United States and whose personal influence shaped a generation of American artists. Born in West Point, New York, into a family steeped in art — his father Robert Weir was a drawing instructor at West Point — he receive...