The Haystacks
Julian Alden Weir
1887/89
Medium
Drypoint with etching on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet; cut to platemark: 13.3 × 11.6 cm (5 1/4 × 4 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
180720
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...