Weir Farm National Historic Site

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How does our environment influence our creativity? Weir Farm National Historic Site is a place where visitors and artists can explore this question in many different ways. To American Impressionist painter J. Alden Weir (1852 – 1919), his beloved Connecticut farm provided him with the means to explore his emotional and spiritual impressions of nature. For 37 years, Weir and visiting friends such as Childe Hassam and John Twachtman painted the gentle rolling hills, rocky pastures, and human and animal family of Weir Farm. After Weir’s death in 1919, the next two generations to live at the farm were also artists. First, Weir’s daughter Dorothy married sculptor Mahonri Young, who built a second studio on the property. After Young’s death, the farm was sold to artist couple Sperry and Doris Andrews. Each generation of artists discovered inspiration at Weir Farm, and each honored and preserved the artistic legacy of the landscape. Park visitors today can still see this American Impressionist landscape intact. All are welcome to explore their own artistic potential here by painting, sketching, and photographing the site. The National Park Service and its private partner the Weir Farm Trust also share the mission of providing professional artists with more structured opportunities to work. Weir Farm is simultaneously a place to explore our artistic past, a place to create art now, and a promise for continued inspiration in our artistic future. For information on:
Kids Art Classes
The Visiting Artist Program
The Artist-In-Residence Program
The Weir Farm Trust