Lady in White, oil on canvas, 24" x 20", 31" x 27" framed, s.l.l. SOLD

Julian went to Europe in 1873 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérome. Under the influence of French plein air painter Jules Bastien-Lepage, Weir learned to work directly from nature. He returned to the United States in 1877 and settled in New York, teaching at the Cooper Institute and the Art Students League.

Weir became associated with first generation of American Impressionists and in 1898 was one of the founding members of The Ten, a group of artists, including Childe Hassam, Edmund Tarbell, and John Henry Twachtman, who were reacting against the entrenched values of the National Academy and the Society of American Artists. The Ten became instrumental in propagating Impressionist style in America. Weir remains today one of the most important American painters of his time.

Exhibited and won awards: Paris Salon, 1875; Paris Expo, 1889,1900; American Artists Association, 1889; Carnegie Institute, 1897; National Academy of Design, 1906; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1910; Armory Show, 1913; Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1914; among many others.

In the Collection of: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Cincinnati Museum; Luxembourg Museum; San Diego Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Wadsworth Atheneum; Smithsonian American Art Museum; The Phillips Collection; Delaware Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum; National Academy of Design; Whitney Museum; Everson Museum; Butler Institute; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and many others.