Rebecca Foster and Caroline M. Welsh
With Contributions by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Stephen Bennett-Phillips, and Kathleen V. Jameson
Cloth $60.00 | 0-8156-0809-8 | 2005
An exhibition catalogue of the artistic contributions of Harold Weston (1894-1972), a significant twentieth-century American painter, etcher, and muralist that breaks new scholarly ground in the field of American art.
Reviews
"Wild Exuberance: Harold Weston’s Adirondack Art is not just an accompaniment to the exhibition of the painter’s work. Guest curator Rebecca Foster tells an engrossing story of the artist’s life . . . Chief curator Caroline M. Welsh includes an insightful history of art in the Adirondacks during Weston’s lifetime (1894-1972). There are 129 images, mostly color reproductions of Weston’s work, including incandescent Adirondack landscapes that Foster describes as ‘hymns to nature.’ "
Adirondack Life
Description
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 not 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, 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. The biographical essay by the exhibition's guest curator Rebecca Foster follows the unfolding of a career in parallel to the unfolding of a life. Weston's rich technique is explored by Stephen Bennett-Phillips, curator at the Phillips Collection, in an analysis of the painting. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art at the Fogg Art Museum, provides an introduction to the catalogue.
Author
Rebecca Foster is Harold Weston's biographer and president of the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists.
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.
8 1/2 x 10, 160 pages, 116 color and 13 black and white illustrations, notes, index
Copublished with the Adirondack Museum
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Syracuse University Press
