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Three Trees, Winter
192216 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Harold Weston
United States (Merion, PA, 1894 - 1972, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Gift of Emily Sibley Watson
Accession Number:
1925.33
Location: Currently on view
In 1922, the year he painted "Three Trees, Winter," Harold Weston wrote:
"I stopped beside a big hemlock tree and reached around the great trunk to feel its vigor, its reality, its life existing essence. My ear, laid against the wet bark, seemed to hear the pulse, the flow of life-creating sap....[R]oots plunged into the soil, made it one with the earth and gave it life. As a primitive pagan I bowed before the mystery of that world spirit that giveth life to nature and to man."
Weston has recently emerged as one of the premier painters of the Adirondack landscape. His modernist sensibility - abstract forms, expressive lines and colors - renew the viewer's understanding and appreciation of traditional vistas. In the words of collector Duncan Phillips, "There is a young American painter 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."
[Gallery label text, 2007]
"I stopped beside a big hemlock tree and reached around the great trunk to feel its vigor, its reality, its life existing essence. My ear, laid against the wet bark, seemed to hear the pulse, the flow of life-creating sap....[R]oots plunged into the soil, made it one with the earth and gave it life. As a primitive pagan I bowed before the mystery of that world spirit that giveth life to nature and to man."
Weston has recently emerged as one of the premier painters of the Adirondack landscape. His modernist sensibility - abstract forms, expressive lines and colors - renew the viewer's understanding and appreciation of traditional vistas. In the words of collector Duncan Phillips, "There is a young American painter 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."
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Marks
Artist's signature, lower left: Weston Date, lower right: 1922
Provenance
The artist; purchased by Mrs. James Sibley Watson from an exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery, 1925, for the Gallery
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Paintings by Harold Weston Memorial Art Gallery 1/10/1925 - 2/15/1925
- The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947 Birmingham Museum of Art 9/11/1987 - 8/21/1988
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Catalogue of Original Drawings of the Civil War by Winslow Homer and Paintings by John E. Costigan, Nicolai Fechin, Van Dearing Perrine and Harold Weston. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1925.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1988.
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Kevin Burget and Rebecca Foster. Harold Weston: A Bigger Belief in Beauty. Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 2005.
- Article Author: Foster, Rebecca. Article Title: Harold Weston: Three Trees,Winter. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 197-199
- Article Author: Andreatta, David. Article Title: Completing the Picture. Article Scope: Mention. City Newspaper. Rochester, NY Issue Date: March 2022. Page Number: 23
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Web Links
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Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Seeing America
Chapter on Harold Weston's Three Trees, Winter, written by Rebecca Foster.
Harold Weston Foundation
This site is a good source of information on Harold Weston's life and work.