Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Noonday Sun |
Object Name |
Painting |
Date |
1922 |
Artist |
Weston, Harold |
Medium |
Oil |
Material |
Canvas |
Description |
Landscape with cloudy sky, mountains and trees; dark colors of blue, and purple. Harold Weston was a major twentieth-century artist, public servant, Works Progress Administration muralist, and humanitarian. After attending Harvard, Weston joined British relief forces during World War I and organized and ran the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration during World War II. In the 1950s, involved in art politics, he led the fight for government support of the arts culminating in the establishment of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities in 1965. Beginning in the late 1890s, the Weston family spent their summers at St. Huberts, where Weston's father and grandmother were founding members of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, a land conservation group formed in 1887. It was exhibited in November 1922 at Montrose Gallery, an art gallery on 5th Avenue, New York, N.Y. |
Notes |
Artist File Folder (AML): Auction/gallery listings, reference inquiries, articles, photographs, slides, biographical information, exhibition catalogs. Accession File Folder: Black and white proof, accession forms, exhibition lists, correspondence |
Dimensions |
H-16 W-22 inches |
Collection |
ART PAINTING |
Search Terms |
landscapes |
Catalog Number |
1989.075.0001 |
Other number |
ptg. #506 |
Imagefile |
076\1989.075.0001.JPG |
Species |
Painting |
Credit line |
Gift of Faith Weston |